🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all,

I've somehow managed to munge my linux system up during an upgrade to
ELF.  What I had is as follows:

Slackware 2.2.0 (originally), 1.2.13 kernel, various small upgrades, but
not the gcc or libc packages.  Everything _should_ be fairly standard...

I followed the instructions I had (from a web page somewheres), and seem to
now be able to run and compile ELF programs.  However, I have two rather
major problems still plagueing me, possibly related, and another smaller
problem also.

1) login.  For some reason, when I attempt to telnet in from a remote site,
or login on a terminal attached to the serial port on the machine, it asks
for my login name and password, echos the password to the screen, and
sits there, looking at me :(.  Seems suspiciously like it no longer knows
how to turn the screen-echoing off, and panics shortly thereafter....?

2) X-Windows.  Always a problem... When I startx, or init 6 (X-Windows being
run on an init 6 :), it seems to boot up ok, gives me all the standard
logging messages, changes the screen mode, then freezes.  Completely.  Even
a 3-finger salute does nothing :(.

3) Kernel.  I didn't really expect to be able to compile the kernel, but it
appears I should be able to add a couple of flags to the compiler to tell it
to grab the a.out libraries and etc.  I did this, and am getting assembler
errors, of all things!  I don't have the errors on me, unfortunately, but if
anyone has any suspiscions re: this, I'll post them :)

Hope someone out there has some idea of what is going on, as I'm frankly
stumped :(

Thanks,
KevinL