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Adaptec 294x - Invisible console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Patton Unix Sys Admin)
Mon Aug 7 05:04:43 1995
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 13:41:50 --800
From: jrp@mrwa.mrwa.wa.gov.au (James Patton Unix Sys Admin)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Cc: jrp@mrwa.mrwa.wa.gov.au
Hi
I hope this is the right mailing list for this query. If not, can anyone
tell me the correct one?
I have an Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI controller. I am using Linux kernel 1.3.5.
Everything is working fine...
BUT...
when the machine boots it complains
/bin/setterm: No entry for linux in /etc/termcap
and then the console window is invisible. However, I can log in, type "doom",
and doom comes up fine. I quit doom and type startx, and X-Windows comes
up fine. But on the console window, no characters are being echo'ed to
the screen.
This has only started happening since I updated to Linux 1.3.5.
I tried putting an entry in /etc/termcap such as
console|linux|...
This stopped the /bin/setterm error message, but the console is still invisible.
I also tried using the termcap file from our friendly local ISP who runs Linux.
But this didn't work either.
Is there anyone out there having similar problems? Can anyone suggest the
entry I need for /etc/termcap?
Thanks
James.
