Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel 1.3.67 and terminal | From | <> | Date | Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:12:56 +0000 (GMT) |
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-> ->On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Clay Hopkins wrote: -> ->> ->> Hiya! I've just installed kernel v. 1.3.67 on my machine, and I now get ->> an error when booting that says my terminal type is unknown. When I do ->> an echo TERM, I get "linux". Since the type is unknown according to the ->> kernel, I can't run anything even as simple as vi! Any suggestions or ->> help would be greatly appreciated. -> ->Add "linux" to to "console" entry in your /etc/terminfo file, like this: -> ->console|linux|con80x25|dumb:\ -> ^^^^^^ ->
Interestingly enough, I had this same problem and followed the advice in the readme's (or the FAQ. Can;t remember which), which also said to remove the dumb entry - since upgrading however, I have found my termcap to be woefully wrong. So badly wrong, in fact, that if TERM is set to linux or console the lxdialog utility will die quite badly. If I set it to type XTERM however it works fine. I don't believe this is a problem with my ncurses setup, which I've checked and recompiled just to be sure - anyone out there with a termcap I can steal please? (I'm edging towards the termcap especially as with the NCurses test programs some of the control codes don't seem to be recongnised with TERM=linux and are just ignored. Hmmm).
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