Re: My report on running 2.6.0-test2 on a Dell Inspiron 7000 (possible tty trouble)

[Paul Dickson]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:42:34 +0200, Antonio Vargas wrote:

>  On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:22:56AM -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
>  
>  > I built 2.6.0-test2 for my Dell Inspiron 7000 notebook (PII, 300Mhz) with
>  > a RH9 distribution.  I build the kernel on another system (1.33GHz) using
>  > ssh.
>  > 
>  > I was missing some device support, so did a "make menuconfig".  The
>  > configuration options were shown, I selected "Sound -->" and pressed
>  > enter.  The terminal went back to text mode and then hung.  Gnome-terminal
>  > started consuming all unused CPU cycles.  
>  > 
>  > I could recover the process by closing the tab or resetting the terminal,
>  > but this would only fix the problem for the moment.  Frequently, it
>  > wouldn't even finish redisplaying the screen before it locked again.
>  > 
>  > This would happen running "make menuconfig" locally or via ssh on another
>  > system.
>  > 
>  > This is likely caused by some difference in the tty code in 2.6.0-test2.
>  > The problem does not occur under 2.4.20-18.9.  If 2.6.0-test2 is correct,
>  > then I might need an updated version of gnome-terminal suitable for 2.6.0.
>  
>  This is a bug in gnome-terminal:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89151
>   
This bug is still in the gnome-terminal version included with Severn.

	-Paul

My report on running 2.6.0-test2 on a Dell Inspiron 7000 (possible tty trouble)

[Havoc Pennington]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:09:39AM -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
>  On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:42:34 +0200, Antonio Vargas wrote:
>  > This is a bug in gnome-terminal:
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89151
>  > 
>  
>  This bug is still in the gnome-terminal version included with Severn.
>   
Terminal emulation is vte, gnome-terminal is just the menubar and
prefs dialog. I moved the bug now (it probably would have been closed
already if Nalin had seen it, sorry about that).

Havoc