Re: Linux 2.6.7 (stty rows 50 columns 140 reports : No such device or address)

Jeff Garzik
2004-06-16T12:57:18Z

Zilvinas Valinskas wrote:
> On Compaq N800 EVO notebook with a radeonfb enabled - stty failes to
> adjust terminal size. strace log attached. Under 2.6.5/2.6.6 it used to
> work.
>
> relevant part:
>
> open("/dev/vc/1", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> fcntl64(3, F_GETFL) = 0x8800 (flags
> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE)
> fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
> ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo
> ...}) = 0
> ioctl(3, TIOCGWINSZ, {ws_row=65, ws_col=175, ws_xpixel=0, ws_ypixel=0})
> = 0
> ioctl(3, TIOCSWINSZ, {ws_row=50, ws_col=175, ws_xpixel=0, ws_ypixel=0})
> = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)
> write(2, "/bin/stty: ", 11) = 11
> write(2, "/dev/vc/1", 9) = 9
> open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 4
>
>
> it makes no difference when doing :
>
> stty rows 50 columns 140
> or
> stty rows 50 columns 140 -F /dev/vc/1 ...
>
> Exactly same error.

huh, I wonder if this is why reset(1) doesn't fully reset the terminal,
like it used to ...

Jeff