From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 5:32:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0FA37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 05:32:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9854643EA3 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 05:32:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAMDWMx2039923 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:32:22 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAMDWG2L039922 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:32:16 GMT Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:32:16 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: terminal incompatibility Message-ID: <20021122133216.GC30135@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021122090927.84140.qmail@web11203.mail.yahoo.com> <20021122124909.GB10917@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021122124909.GB10917@gothmog.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:49:09PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > This combination has worked remarkably well both for local programs > and remotely displayed stuff from a Solaris, Linux or BSD system :) I believe the Solaris AT386 (or is it 386AT ?) terminal type is pretty much the same thing as cons25 --- both are variants on the SCO color console. Worked pretty well the last time I tried it. confirmation of the correct terminal type under Solaris is easily found by grep'ing for SCO in the Solaris /etc/termcap. > You can always increase compatibility with other systems by changing > cons25 to vt220 in /etc/ttys. Not all systems have a cons25 termcap > entry, but they all know about good ol' vt220 terminals. FreeBSD's > virtual ttys work fine then. Don't you also have to modify the kernel configuration to support vt220 compatibility --- this stuff in GENERIC as documented in pcvt(4)? # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100 # Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD for pcvt vt220 compatible console driver #device vt0 at isa? #options XSERVER # support for X server on a vt console #options FAT_CURSOR # start with block cursor # If you have a ThinkPAD, uncomment this along with the rest of the PCVT lines #options PCVT_SCANSET=2 # IBM keyboards are non-std although a man page that talks about FreeBSD 1.0-GAMMA probably indicates that the whole thing is a bit stale... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message