Hello Alexander, On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:04:37PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:24:12AM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > > IMHO, getty could be patched easily, maybe some option > > may be added to suppress "tty-bitness-autodetection" > > feature and this would be done by people with more > > experience WRT linux console (and other kinds of ttys), > > so I wouldn't perhaps want to extend/improve the > > wrapper script further. > > Yes, this sound great. By adding a switch, "legacy" systems could > remain unaltered, while "modern" systems could get "sane" defaults, > i.e., settings are not messed with.
I replaced one terminal of mine with:
9:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty9
and it at least fixes this bug. Do you know any reason to use getty
over mingetty on virtual consoles? (Serial lines are a different
issue, of course).
Greetings
Helge
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