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>Software problems</TITLE
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>Chapter 8. Known problems</TD
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>8.2. Software problems</H1
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>For details on solving software problems see <A
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HREF="distro_spec.html"
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>Chapter 9</A
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>"Special notes on some distributions."</SPAN
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>8.2.1. Incompatible userspace program:s</H2
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>gpm - freezy mouse under XFree86. With the current XFree86 you are losing VGA virtual consoles anyway.</P
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>Recommended: disable.</P
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>RedHat 8.0/9 - <TT
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>/bin/sysfont</TT
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>You can use RedHat 7.3 <TT
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>consolechars</TT
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>SuSE 8.1 - <TT
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>/etc/init.d/hwscan</TT
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>Recommended: disable. If you have to install new hardware and want to use this service, boot with standard kernel and start it manually.</P
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>Programs writing directly to tty's, like <TT
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>8.2.2. Tweaks needed</H2
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>Mandrake 9.1 - <TT
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>/etc/init.d/numlock</TT
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>You should change the lines including <SPAN
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>"<TT
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>/dev/tty[0-8]</TT
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>"<TT
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>SuSE 8.1 - <TT
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>/etc/init.d/kbd</TT
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>Add this line in the very beginning of the file:</P
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>KBD_TTY="tty0 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7"</PRE
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