[Linux-Discussion] serial console

  • From: Curt Binder <binder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:53:39 -0500 (EST)


I've got a machine running Slack 8.0 =) and I have a serial line connected
to it.  My desktop machine is a Win2k box.  I can get the serial line to
work and have the console displayed on it just fine.  My problem is that
the screen scrolls up 1 extra line when I run some programs.  Example is
running pine.  Pine places its own little 'description' bar across the
top.  That bar gets scrolled up and the display is 'altered' a bit.
Any suggestions??
also, I've tried several different settings in the /etc/inittab file for
the serial line and all have yieled the same results.  Here are the
settings I have tried:

s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0
s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 linux
s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100
s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS0 vt100

(note that I have modified the /etc/inittab file and tried each line
individually, they are not all in the inittab file at the same time cause
that would probably cause some problems)

I am using Hyperterminal Private Edition 6.3 on Windows 2000.  Could this
terminal be the problem?

Any / all suggestions are welcome.

Curt



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