Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:44:43 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel terminal oddities Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961030083653.2931A-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961029225920.369e-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Dave Babler wrote: > > > The problems are primarily (totally?) in how ttys are treated. From the > > console, running cons25, the first indication is that when you log in, > > your username is repeated: > > > > login: bozo > > bozo <----- > > password: > > > > The next is that in applications such as pine and pico, NONE of the > > control keys are recognized, including ^C, ^X and escape. Only ^Z and ^T > > seem to be recognized, so the only way out is to ^Z and kill it. When > > users telnet in, applications tell them they are "not using a terminal". > > > > I'm at a loss as to where to look next or what to try... anybody have any > > ideas? > > Sounds like your terminal type is not being guessed correctly. Try > running 'tset' and report your terminal type as 'cons25'. If that doesn't > work then you may need to reinstall your termcap database. > Except that it works fine with the kernel that was compiled using, essentially, the 2.1.5 sources from the CD-ROM and doesn't with the -STABLE source tree as of a day or two ago. Same exact termcap.db, in fact I have to purposely squirrel away a copy of my termcap because it gets clobbered when I rebuild /usr/bin or wherever it lives (it has a required custom terminal in it). tset is always set to 'cons25' for either kernel - and the initial echo oddity is, of course, before any explicit tset operation. I'll try poking around with termcap today, but I was inadvertently using the rebuilt termcap when this problem first cropped up. -Dave
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