Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:32:16 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: terminal incompatibility Message-ID: <20021122133216.GC30135@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20021122124909.GB10917@gothmog.gr> References: <20021122090927.84140.qmail@web11203.mail.yahoo.com> <20021122124909.GB10917@gothmog.gr>
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:49:09PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> This combination has worked remarkably well both for local programs
> and remotely displayed stuff from a Solaris, Linux or BSD system :)
I believe the Solaris AT386 (or is it 386AT ?) terminal type is pretty
much the same thing as cons25 --- both are variants on the SCO color
console. Worked pretty well the last time I tried it. confirmation
of the correct terminal type under Solaris is easily found by grep'ing
for SCO in the Solaris /etc/termcap.
> You can always increase compatibility with other systems by changing
> cons25 to vt220 in /etc/ttys. Not all systems have a cons25 termcap
> entry, but they all know about good ol' vt220 terminals. FreeBSD's
> virtual ttys work fine then.
Don't you also have to modify the kernel configuration to support
vt220 compatibility --- this stuff in GENERIC as documented in
pcvt(4)?
# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100
# Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD for pcvt vt220 compatible console driver
#device vt0 at isa?
#options XSERVER # support for X server on a vt console
#options FAT_CURSOR # start with block cursor
# If you have a ThinkPAD, uncomment this along with the rest of the PCVT lines
#options PCVT_SCANSET=2 # IBM keyboards are non-std
although a man page that talks about FreeBSD 1.0-GAMMA probably
indicates that the whole thing is a bit stale...
Cheers,
Matthew
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