Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 11:42:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: partek@indecent.com (David Anderson) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCVT problems Message-ID: <m0ssRrc-000019C@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950912015118.188B-100000@system1.indecent.com> from "David Anderson" at Sep 12, 95 02:19:36 am
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>From the keyboard of David Anderson:
> With the problems I've had with the cons25 console driver, I decided to
> give pcvt another shot. I've come across a few things(which I may have
> mentioned before) that don't look quite right.
>
> 1- What is supposed to be bold turns out blue.(bad mappings?)
This is as it should be. It was done because of a shortcoming in the VGA
architecture. The color assignments are changeable at compile time in
pcvt_conf.h.
> 2- The output on the screen at boot is white on a red background(not a
> problem, just looks weird)
This is as it should be. It was done because of personal prefenrence and
is cahngeable at compile time in pcvt_conf.h.
> 3- When using IRC, the screen "shakes" when a a new line of text goes
> through. It quite literally gives me a headache. (An incentive to stay
> off of IRC? :) )
No idea, never used IRC.
> 4- The cursor seems to be lagged behind my typing.
You seem to be as very fast typist then ! :-)
The cursor update is done asynchronously in pcvt and its frequency is
controlled by the compile time variable PCVT_UPDATEFAST which is again
changable in pcvt_conf.h.
> 5- When using the up arrow key in tcsh to recall commands, it doesn't
> clear the current line, so things get jumbled up.
No idea. I'm using bash for years now, and it works for me.
For your items 3 and 5: perhaps you want to switch pcvt in the HP mode
(scon -H) in which you can toggle a display functions mode by pressing F8.
In this mode escape sequences and control codes dont get executed but dis-
played, so it might be possible to find the cause of these problems.
Anyway, i would also suggest to read the (not perfect) docs in the directory
/usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/Doc !
Hope this helps,
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe
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