Re: Broken tty, tty1 in all caps but functional

From: David Ford (david+nospam@killerlabs.com)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 22:20:48 EST

Next message: buddy@dookie.net: "K7M: Onboard sound WORKS in 2.3.41"
Previous message: Ralf Baechle: "Re: Updated 2.3.x job list (its getting shorter)"
In reply to: Alan Curry: "Re: Broken tty, tty1 in all caps but functional"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Alan Curry wrote:
> If you accidentally did that at the login prompt, getty would see ^[[A.
> Seeing no lowercase letters, it thinks you are on a terminal that can't
> handle lowercase letters, so it puts the tty driver in case-transmogrifying
> mode to accomodate you.

gotcha. another tidbit of info to tuck away.

thankyou muchly,
-d

-- Open for Y2K - Linux, we never shutdown

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: buddy@dookie.net: "K7M: Onboard sound WORKS in 2.3.41"
Previous message: Ralf Baechle: "Re: Updated 2.3.x job list (its getting shorter)"
In reply to: Alan Curry: "Re: Broken tty, tty1 in all caps but functional"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Feb 07 2000 - 21:00:05 EST