Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Sep 1996 14:40:45 -0400 | From | DarrellAE@aol ... | Subject | Re: Console driver problem ? |
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Christophe Dupre (duprec@jsp.umontreal.ca) wrote:
>>> While using VC1 (ALT-F1 on my computer), the driver seems to miss some >>> caracters (even when typing very slowly so it's not a typing overload :-) )
Michael Droscoll replied:
>> I seem to remember that somebody else on the list was having trouble with >> exactly the same symptoms as this when they were starting programs with >> inittab in the following manner: >> >> top > /dev/tty6
Christophe Dupre responded:
> I DO run top, but redirect it to tty12. I've been doing this since 1.2 > and never had any problem before. I'll try disabling top, but I doubt it > will do any good.
Sounds like the same problem I had with top running in /dev/tty9 from inittab
Thanks to roadcap@cfw.com (William E. Roadcap), et al, I now have the problem solved by using:
/usr/bin/top </dev/tty9 >/dev/tty9 2>&1 in my /etc/inittab
I, also, had no previous problem, until procps-1.01 or some kernel change fixed something that previously allowed incorrect behavior of redirected programs.
And I thought I already knew everything ;^> (Maybe if I read some of the books sitting on my shelf I would be closer!!)
Hope this helps, Darrell A. Escola Clovis, California, USA DarrellAE@aol.com
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