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DateFri, 5 Jun 1998 11:39:13 +0200
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: console driver problem?
Hi!

> been up for several days, one of the virtual consoles (and sometimes more,
> although it's only happened to two at most, before I rebooted for some
> other reason) will stop interpreting almost all control characters (e.g.
> ^M, ^?, ^H...).  So whenever you type in your username, and press enter,
> all you get is a ^M, or if you mistype it and backspace, you get a
> ^?.

Yes. I was seeing it regularily on sparc linux with 2.0.?? kernel. It
was very annoying. Usually tty1 died. I'm not sure, but maybe it went
away as they upgraded to 2.1.70. [Which crashes in much nicer ways
:-)]. That installation was redhat 4.2 based, I believe.

								Pavel
-- 
I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. 	   Pavel
Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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