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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: Thanks to all who helped me, yet still problems exist..
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- References: <1993Jan3.171344.650@sfu.ca>
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.065141.13746@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:51:41 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- Edmund Wong (wonge@fraser.sfu.ca) wrote:
-
- : 1) The keyboard's punctuation -,',,,<,>,/,?,"...etc are ALL
- : screwed up. When I press the - key, a + pops up. The pipe (|)
- : no longer exists(well, I can't seem to find it right now. The
- : key THAT'S supposed to output |, now outputs '*' (when I want
- : the pipe) and ' when I want the backslash....
- :
- : What on earth is going on???
-
- As distributed, linux-0.99 and friends has the Finnish keyboard defined.
- You need to go through the Makefile and change stuff for your system.
-
- : 3) The ps command does not work properly. I'm getting errors
- : when I execute a 'ps -a'. I get the following error after
- : it displays the usual ps header.
- :
- : PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
- : error reading kmem (offset = 0x4010000)
- :
- : The permission for /dev/kmem is (now) correct, but it still
- : gives me that error. What have I done wrong? After compiling
- : the new kernel, and booted it, I compiled getty_ps source
- : again, just to make sure. But it screwed up. Anyone got
- : any ideas? Well besides giving up, or jumping off the nearest
- : bridge.. :)
-
- You need to rebuild ps. An even better idea - get one of the new ps's that
- work from /proc. That's what it's there for - so you don't have to
- recompile and hack ps every time there's a new release of linux.
- --
- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
- 1935 will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has
- full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient,
- and the world will follow our lead into the future. --Adolf Hitler
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