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Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 14:52:06 -0700
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From: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@primelogic.com>
Subject: Re: ThinkPad console drivers (was: Boot hangs on mounting root
 with  wireless card inserted)
Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams)
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Nate Williams writes:

>  > >  > (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

DOH!  You mean pcvt is the wrong way to go with the newer Thinkpads? 
My friend's in the process of recompiling the kernel with pcvt 
support as I write this.  Ah, me...

.\\ichelle

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