Re: [Axiom-developer] Hypertex and pty

[Vanuxem Grégory]

Le jeudi 26 octobre 2006 à 02:36 +0200, Waldek Hebisch a écrit :
> I wanted to try hypertex in silver on Gentoo Linux.  It turned out
> that I can not start sman, becouse 'ptyopen' was failing.  Atfter
> a little investigation I found out that the machine (which otherwise
> uses bleeding edge new software) has only old legacy pty's -- the
> new '/dev/ptmx' and '/dev/pts' were not enabled.  All other
> software worked fine, trying '/dev/ptmx' first and then silently
> falling back to legacy pty's -- only Axiom assumed that Linux
> must have working '/dev/ptmx'.
> 
> While I consider this machine as misconfigured, the problem may
> appear in real use.  If we want Axiom to "just work" it should
> also try new method first and then fall back to legacy pty's.
> 

See http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/189GraphicsDoesNotWorkOnDebian


Greg