Re: gpm/kernel stuff
Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 13:36:05 +1100
On 20 Feb 1997 11:14:06 -0000,
bengel@xs4all.nl (Roeland Th. Jansen) wrote:
>I have posted this before and am uncertain what happens here, if it's kernel
>related or gpm related :
>
>when I'm using gpm and cut/paste, I sometimes get garbled paste output :
>
>ftp://ts×11.mit.edu/pub/linu×/păckăges/GCC
>
>it misses consequently the same characters. rebooting linux solves it and it
>looks like that it is system wide. e.g. when another user uses cut/paste,
>the same happens.
Ditto. Corrupt characters, usually one bit flipped. Not a memory
problem, cut/paste on a different string on a different terminal shows
the same symptoms. Don't know what causes it but I find the reset
command clears it, no need for a reboot. This is "reset" from rpm
ncurses-1.9.9e-2.