On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:56:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > its a misconfiguration, sysrq is turned on and this happens to break
> > the arrow keys on some keyboards. sysrq needs to stay off on powerpc
> > for the timebeing, none of the powerpc kernel hackers use it so its
> > almost invariably broken.
>
> Has anyone filed a grave bug against the PowerPC kernel (must be
> kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-pmac )?
the person reporting the problem was using 2.2.19pre17 packages from
proposed-updates. i am not sure if this exact problem existed in
2.2.18*
> Is anyone going to attempt to fix this for a Potato update?
rebuilding 2.2.19 kernel-image packages with sysrq turned off should
fix the arrow key problem. the rootdisk issue is going to take
someone with a taste for kernel hacking. and an oldworld powermac
with a floppy drive.
> > the other issue is the boot-floppies are broken since the root disk
> > prompt won't accept enter (or anything) to continue.
>
> Is this related? It's a kernel issue, right?
yes its a kernel issue that appeared in 2.2.18pre21 (er well thats the
first debian kernel to exhibit it) i am not sure if anyone has tested
2.2.19 i don't think it changed any related code. i don't have a mac
with a floppy drive so i can't test this.
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Ethan Benson
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