On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General > terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I > still have problems. > Pressing return on the terminal causes getty to put up the login message > and prompt, just as it should. After entering a user name (getty kicks off > login) a short line of garbage that looks like it would like to say > Password but actually says: > > P8^w'd > > and then moves up to the previous line and prints: > > dwarf (the user name) > > entering the password for dwarf at this point creates a spew of reverse > video spam across several lines and eventually produces a reverse video > prompt. All input typed at the keyboard from this point on is reverse > video. Anything that I type is displayed ok on the terminal. Anything that > bash returns to the terminal is hopeless garbage. > > I have tried several terminal types (setting TERM=vt100|tty does no good) > > What do I need to do to get login and bash to work? > Maybe you could nose around in /etc/termcap and find something that has to do with Data General. vt100 probably isn't going to help you. Regards, Eric
