TERM was set to vt320. I have switched my inittab to say:
T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -Lhwi ttyS1 38400 wy185
now though, so not TERM is wy185 (which is the model of my terminal).
i don't think the /etc/gettydefs is necessary anyways since i specify
my terminal type as an argument to getty.
having switched terminal types, my situation has changed a bit. i now
have a few different problems (but things are a bit better in
general):
1. if my terminal is on while i boot it gets all sort of ugly weird
characters on it.
2. the arrow keys don't function as arrow keys in the shell (instead
of getting my history when i hit up i get a listing of tab-completions
and a trailing 'A'). the arrows do work, however, in jed (emacs like
editor).
3. i can only run jed once. it works perfectly the first time,
arrows, escape, all the Control-key combos i want. however, the
second time i run it i just get junk on my screen...a whole bunch of
weird escape sequences and a lot of beeping from an unhappy terminal.
any ideas on how to fix these?
eric.
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 02:33:10PM -0400, Lewis, James M. wrote:
> Is your TERM variable set to vt320? There are also a bunch of wyse
> types. See /usr/lib/terminfo/v/* and /usr/lib/terminfo/w/*. (or
> /usr/share/terminfo/...)
>
> On other systems there is a file in /etc/ that specifies what kind
> of terminal is on which serial line (gettydefs or ttytype or something
> like that). I don't see it on my system. I have the stock getty
> and it might take one of the other getty packages to have that file...
>
> jim
>
> > --
> > From: Eric[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:34 PM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject:Making my vt320 useful
> >
> > actually, it's not a vt320, it's a wyse which emulates a vt320. my
> > question is this: how do i get special keystrokes like control-X to
> > go through as if i was typing on a local tty? The arrows and any
> > control-key combination that isn't ^C (or a few others which are
> > recognized by stty i think) just print out on the screen. this makes
> > it very difficult to use emacs. :) when i hit ^X i literally see
> > ^X. when i hit escape, i see ^]. the arrows do the same thing ^[[A
> > and so on... can somebody point me to the correct program/config file
> > i use to set this kind of stuff up?
> >
> > thanks,
> > eric.
> >
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