From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 9 04:39:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA27538 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 04:39:36 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA27532 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 04:39:34 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HSO2H7B8W000360R@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Sun, 09 Jul 1995 13:39:54 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id NAA00859 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 13:52:47 +0200 Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 13:52:47 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Subject: some pcvt quirks To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Message-id: <199507091152.NAA00859@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Two quirks I immediately ran into when giving pcvt330 (never used pcvt before) a try: Script started on Sun Jul 9 11:29:27 1995 monk> startx XFree86 Version 3.1.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6000) Operating System: FreeBSD 2.0 Configured drivers: S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 2) mmio_928, s3_generic Fatal server error: xf86OpenPcvt: VT_GETMODE failed Found pcvt driver but X11 seems to be not supported. Check your kernel's console driver configuration and /dev entries X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). monk> exit Script done on Sun Jul 9 11:29:31 1995 Excuse if this may be a FAQ. Another gotcha: The BACKSPACE key gives a 0x7f (DELETE) in vi; at least it would be nice if the default behaviour was ^H when one is moving from syscons to pcvt. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950701 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-