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SubjectRe: kernel 1.3.67 and terminal
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->On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Clay Hopkins wrote:
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->> 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.
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->Add "linux" to to "console" entry in your /etc/terminfo file, like this:
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->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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