23 Jul
2008
23 Jul
'08
7:31 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:51 PM, John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
I pulled out my ADM-3A today in an effort to stave off
studying and
homework and such; hooked it up to my Debian box, only to find that
there isn't really very good support for it under Debian. I use this
line in my inittab:
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -h -L ttyS0 9600 adm3a
and while I can log in, vim for example looks TERRIBLE, ls tries to do
color and fails miserably, etc.
When I log on to one of the Solaris machines on campus via SSH, they
handle things gracefully. ls works right, vi is excellent.
Is the difference in our terminfo files, or what? I'm not really sure
how these things work so I'm hoping somebody can help me figure out
what's up here, because I'd like my Debian computer to play nicely
with the terminal.
Thanks
John
Ok, one more thing.
When I turn on the terminal, I don't get a login prompt, just the
cursor in the upper left. I hit enter and break a bunch of times but
don't get anything. If I unplug the serial cable and reconnect it,
however, I'll suddenly get all the login prompts that I should have
seen from hitting enter all those times.
Here's what I've got in my inittab:
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -h -L ttyS0 9600 adm3a
Anybody know what's going on here? I seem to remember it working fine
hooked up to my Debian laptop...
John
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