[2027] in testers
Re: console logins are screwed or something
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
Fri Jun 5 20:05:16 1992
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 20:04:46 -0400
From: eichin@Athena.MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
To: Jason M. Sachs <nosaj@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Craig Fields" <cfields@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [2018]
The control key problem is "well-known" and bouncing the control key
before typing your user name should clear it up. Lacking real
documentation on the LK201 keyboard, it is hard to fix the problem.
As for the scrolling delay: contrary to speculation, it is *not* a
feature, but a bug in the BSD tty driver -- it assumes that calling a
display I/O routine always schedules I/O and does a wakeup when it is
finished; this makes sense for serial drivers, but not for video
(since the computer is never "waiting" for video ram, just storing
values in it.) I submitted a patch for this some time in the last
year, along with some enhancements to the qvss driver; both have been
running in the SIPB office since then.
_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
MIT Student Information Processing Board
Cygnus Support <eichin@cygnus.com>
