Re: Addendum to the console problems

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 11:24:20 +0200


Hello,

> First of all, I got a nice spontaneous reboot when I did the nonstop "Hello,
> world!" and holding ENTER for a good 20 seconds

Should be fixed in the patch I've sent to the list (and to Linus as well)
yesterday.

> But...
> I may have posted about these already, but there are still some very odd console
> errors that have persisted since 2.0.xx or something--and it has happened with
> all the keyboards I have.
>
> On sparing occasion, when I do a lot of work in one VT and leave others very
> idle, if I switch to one all the sudden and type something, the first key I type
> is repeated any number of times. This is not definitely reproducable, but
> happens on occasion.

In case this happens only for digit keys, it might be a stuck alt key.

> The second problem I've been having lately since 2.1.110 or so is that on
> occasion when I run a program, I have to hit ENTER twice for the program to run
> E.G.
> <root>:/root# lynx
> (cursor here)
> It just sits there
> I then hit enter again, and lynx starts up
> That sometimes happens with other programs

Please try this with 2.1.115 when it comes out.

> Another problem, which I'm wondering is Lynx, Ncurses, or the kernel console
> driver, is a lot of the time while using Lynx, I hit a key and it takes a couple
> seconds for the key to reach Lynx or for Lynx to respond. I've been wondering
> if that's just a bug in Lynx, which it most likely is... (lynx 2.8.1-dev-18)

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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