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Subject: Re: ThinkPad console drivers (was: Boot hangs on mounting root with
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> >  > (Now if we can just discover why the ThinkPad's terminals go nuts
> >>  occasionally and apparently lose the keymaps we can start
> >>  celebrating.)
> >
> >Strange.  I've *never* had that happen in the 6+ years I've been using
> >IBM Stinkpad's.
> >
> >Are you using syscons, or PCVT?
> >
> >Nate
> 
> 
> Alas, we were mistakenly using syscons.  Thanks for pointing us in 
> the right direction.  If we'd been paying attention when we were 
> editing the kernel conf file, we would have prevented the problem in 
> the first place:

Actually, the comment is wrong.  Syscons should work fine, and the
comment needs to be adjusted to say something like 'really old'
Thinkpads.

(FYI, the comment is mine).


Nate

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