From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 11 18:48:49 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA15487 for current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:48:49 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA15480 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:48:47 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.34]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id SAA00254; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:47:14 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id SAA03593; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:49:25 -0700 Message-Id: <199509120149.SAA03593@corbin.Root.COM> To: Bill Fenner cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: userconfig doesn't work on tvi925 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Sep 95 18:03:22 PDT." <95Sep11.180329pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:49:24 -0700 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I have a headless PC with a tvi925 clone as its console. The new >userconfig assumes a vt100, so it is completely useless in this situation. >Is there any chance of adding a "dumb terminal" mode and defaulting to it >if you are on a serial console? (With, of course, a command in "dumb" >mode that can switch you to full screen mode?) Well, I just spent 20 minutes on the phone with Jordan convincing him that we should bring back the CLI mode. The compromise is to provide both the CLI and the "visual" interface. Kernel bloat, yes, but someday this whole thing will hopefully be moved into a "/boot" and won't be part of the kernel. -DG