From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 03:06:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA01423 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 03:06:05 -0700 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA01414 ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 03:05:53 -0700 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0ssSAD-000I0PC; Tue, 12 Sep 95 12:02 MET DST Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0ssRrc-000019C; Tue, 12 Sep 95 11:42 MET DST Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: PCVT problems To: partek@indecent.com (David Anderson) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 11:42:48 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "David Anderson" at Sep 12, 95 02:19:36 am Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1942 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?