From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 21 20:42:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE91D37B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:42:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com (mailout11.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B421C43F3F for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:42:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hm@kts.org) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18bCiE-0007uE-03; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 05:42:06 +0100 Received: from ernie.kts.org (520021727764-0001@[217.227.44.189]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18bCi8-1yPVqKC; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 05:42:00 +0100 Received: from bert.int.kts.org (bert.int.kts.org [172.31.42.2]) by ernie.kts.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93ED04CB07; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 05:41:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by bert.int.kts.org (Postfix, from userid 100) id 79AC45499; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 05:41:59 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: the mythical syscons redesign document ( was Re: Porting wscons ) In-Reply-To: <20030122010246.52789.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com> To: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 05:41:59 +0100 (CET) Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20030122044159.79AC45499@bert.int.kts.org> From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) X-Sender: 520021727764-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?= wrote: > I don't think we should go directly to (3). FWIW, the > last time I tried running pcvt I got really scared by > the incompatibilities: X didn't run, screensavers > would block the console and even pine wasn't > functional either. Please don't blame pcvt in case you are not able to set it up properly. X runs fine and without any problems (even in cases when syscons has one of its quarterly hickups ..), nothing "blocks" the console and pine runs fine - as does any other program runing on a properly setup pcvt, termcap and TERM variable. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Hamburg, Europe hm@kts.org www.kts.org There is a difference between an open mind and a hole in the head. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message