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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX PC 1.5.10 has a few minor bugs
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.213709.1719@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 6 Sep 90 21:37:09 GMT
References: <3443@rwthinf.UUCP>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
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In article <3443@rwthinf.UUCP> u31b3hs@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt) writes:
>The opposite is true:  Before I had virtual terminals, I couldn't use the
>kill key
>at console and ps doesn't show console processes.  Now, everything works

This was probably an installation problem.

>o   wtmp/utmp has a problem with the serial lines since I am using virtual
>    terminals.
>    talk and write doesn't run because of this reason, but this is not
>    important for

I thought these were broken too. They worked better with 1.5.10 binaries than
with 1.3 binaries :-].

>o   In the PH version, you have to use software scroll with a hercules card
>    or the al capability does not work correct.

The scrolling routines make assumptions about hardware wraparound that are
invalid for the hercules card. The problem was noticed in the middle of the
development of the virtual console driver and fixed immediately.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au