Re: Bizare 1.3 problem...

System Administrator (root@misty.worcester.com)
Fri, 18 Aug 1995 17:29:07 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 18 Aug 1995, Raj Mathur wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 23:37 GMT+0530
> From: Raj Mathur <raju@gratis.xgroup.ernet.in>
> To: root@misty.worcester.com
> Cc: corwin@big.fishnet.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Bizare 1.3 problem...
>
> >>>>> "System" == System Administrator <root@misty.worcester.com> writes:
>
> System> I had the same problem with 1.3.9 when I first installed
> System> it all I did was edited /etc/termcap and coppied the entry
> System> for vt100 and renamed it linux, works fine now :)
>
> Simpler to just add a "|" seperated "linux" to the vt100 entry, as in:
>
> d0|vt100|vt100-am|vt100am|dec vt100:\
>
> becomes
>
> d0|vt100|linux|vt100-am|vt100am|dec vt100, Linux console:\
>
> On second thoughts, add the "linux" tag to the ``console'' entry, not
> the ``vt100'' entry.
>
Oddly enough I tried this as well and it did not work on this machine for
some reason :(