Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-08 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 21:41 +, Richard Melville wrote: > The atom has come a long way since its inauguration; the latest > Silverton range featuring the Avoton processors boast up to an eight > core model with a 2.6 GHz clock speed per core and a 64 bit > instruction set. The L3 cache is up t

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-07 Thread Richard Melville
> > Good luck - I guess that compiling a kernel on an atom will be > slow. > > ?en > -- > das eine Mal als Trag?die, dieses Mal als Farce > The atom has come a long way since its inauguration; the latest Silverton range featuring the Avoton processors boast up to an eight core model with a 2.6 G

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:02 PM, William Harrington wrote: >> Good luck - I guess that compiling a kernel on an atom will be >> slow. >> >> ĸen > > All hail the power of cross compilers with faster machines! I'll give it a try. > Hopefully it does get fixed so this thread will help someone. Lots

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 6, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > Good luck - I guess that compiling a kernel on an atom will be > slow. > > ĸen All hail the power of cross compilers with faster machines! Hopefully it does get fixed so this thread will help someone. Lots of information here. Sincerely, Wil

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 02:26:24PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > I still think my suggestion of checking every key will identify if > > any of the keys are being garbled in the kernel, and therefore if > > this is a kernel _input_ proble

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I still think my suggestion of checking every key will identify if > any of the keys are being garbled in the kernel, and therefore if > this is a kernel _input_ problem. > > But here is an alternative train of thought : > > When you trigge

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-06 Thread Richard Melville
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Forgot to attach it the first time, and when I did it bounced (too > > big, whoops!). So here's the third attempt, using xz to compress it > > from 177K to < 7K. > > Thanks and sorry for confusion! > I had no Unicode initially, but added it

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > Forgot to attach it the first time, and when I did it bounced (too > big, whoops!). So here's the third attempt, using xz to compress it > from 177K to < 7K. Thanks and sorry for confusion! I had no Unicode initially, but added it after initi

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:01:00PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Your LatArCyrHeb font has two, possibly three, characters which > match a "white square". If you manage to prove that it is a kernel > video problem, can you please "loadkeys LatGrkCyr-8x16" and repeat > the test. I'm guessing you

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:43:28PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> > > This gets weirder and weirder. Most of us don't have a stock of > > different motherboards to play with, and I've no experience in this > > area. I think you said that sh

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> > This gets weirder and weirder. Most of us don't have a stock of > different motherboards to play with, and I've no experience in this > area. I think you said that showkey and dumpkeys reported the > keyboard was giving the expected values

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:06:01PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > In my previous reply I included an invalid-unicode symbol, code > > U+FFFD displaying as reverse-video question mark : � : if you read > > the mail on the LFS-7.4 machine (o

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-05 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > In my previous reply I included an invalid-unicode symbol, code > U+FFFD displaying as reverse-video question mark : � : if you read > the mail on the LFS-7.4 machine (or copy this paragraph to a file, > scp that file to the LFS machine, and t

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-04 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 04/12/2013 20:38, Alexey Orishko a écrit : > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> I now wonder if you are using a non-unicode console font ? > > I've built LFS using ALFS scripts and didn't change anything regarding > fonts... should I? ALFS (jhalfs) does not set anything

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-04 Thread Igor Živković
On 12/04/2013 08:38 PM, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> I now wonder if you are using a non-unicode console font ? > > I've built LFS using ALFS scripts and didn't change anything regarding > fonts... should I? What does your /etc/sysconfig/consol

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 08:38:12PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > I now wonder if you are using a non-unicode console font ? > > I've built LFS using ALFS scripts and didn't change anything regarding > fonts... should I? > I'll check the

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-04 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > I now wonder if you are using a non-unicode console font ? I've built LFS using ALFS scripts and didn't change anything regarding fonts... should I? I'll check the rest tomorrow. /alexey -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 01:11:00PM +0100, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:29:42PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> > >> What are the locales (LC_ALL or similar) in BOTH systems ? > Neither has LC_ALL set > > Ubuntu and LFS-7.

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-04 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:29:42PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> What are the locales (LC_ALL or similar) in BOTH systems ? Neither has LC_ALL set Ubuntu and LFS-7.4 had this set: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 My old LFS-6.3 has LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 >>

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:29:42PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Other things to consider: > > What are the locales (LC_ALL or similar) in BOTH systems ? > > Using 'showkey' [ in a tty ], find the values for the Backspace and > Del keys - on a regular 102-key keyboard mine are 14 and 111 - the

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:41:26PM -0600, William Harrington wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Alexey Orishko wrote: > > > At least LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and non-us keyboard are working file with > > Ubuntu... > > I wonder what's wrong with my LFS setup... > > utf-8 (Unicode ), iso-8859-1, is

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-03 Thread William Harrington
On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Alexey Orishko wrote: > At least LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and non-us keyboard are working file with > Ubuntu... > I wonder what's wrong with my LFS setup... utf-8 (Unicode ), iso-8859-1, iso-8859-15 (with euro symbol) For norwegian you need to load the "no" keymap There

Re: [blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-12-01 Thread Richard Melville
> > Hi folks, > > I wonder if anyone could guess what's wrong with my text terminal. > I've recently built LFS-7.4 (32bit) and most of BLFS (I'm not using X > Windows, just text terminals only) on Atom D2550 motherboard, VGA display > resolution. > > When I logged in if I try to edit bash command l

[blfs-support] problem using BS or DEL key

2013-11-30 Thread Alexey Orishko
Hi folks, I wonder if anyone could guess what's wrong with my text terminal. I've recently built LFS-7.4 (32bit) and most of BLFS (I'm not using X Windows, just text terminals only) on Atom D2550 motherboard, VGA display resolution. When I logged in if I try to edit bash command line by deleting