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Console problems..

Post by Gregory Hu » Fri, 06 Jan 1995 13:11:22



I used to have Linux 1.1.59 installed from the Slackware distribution
and had absolutely no problems with it..

However, I was unfamiliar with UNIX at the time and randomly installed
different software packages all over the place..

I decided to totally reinstall LINUX so that I could have a "clean" /usr
partition amongst other things, and now I have problems.

I installed LINUX from the same slackware distribution I orginally used
but now I cannot used the CTRL-A series of commands in Minicom (a '.'
just appears on the screen)  This occurs during a normal console session
(VT100) and XWindows sessions under xterm, color_xterm, and rxvt.

The setup programs also will no longer run in color even though they did
when I first ran them for my new installation.

I would appreciate any advise on hot to correctly configure my console.

Thanks..

Greg Hull.

 
 
 
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: I have the following in my .profile
: stty erase "^H" intr "^?" kill "^U"
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: This is working fine with X i.e. when I do 'xterm -ls'.

: But when I Ctrl-Alt-Fn out to a linux console, things get messed up.

: The Backspace key is producing ^? which aborts my command line. Ctrl-U is
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: 'infocmp linux' tells me that these keys are indeed expected to produce
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