On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:56:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> 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. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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