From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 15:38:31 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA05685 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 15:38:31 -0700 Received: from system1.indecent.com (root@system1.indecent.com [204.95.227.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA05679 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 15:38:28 -0700 Received: (from partek@localhost) by system1.indecent.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA05632; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:40:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:40:01 -0500 (EST) From: David Anderson To: Hellmuth Michaelis cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCVT problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > > 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. The only thing that I found changable in that file was the kernel bootup colors. I've been playing with scon though and it's working somewhat. > > 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. Done. Thanks :) > > 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. My fault, I still had things set to cons25. Problem fixed :) > > 4- The cursor seems to be lagged behind my typing. > You seem to be as very fast typist then ! :-) So I've been told :) > 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. Hmm.. I knew there had to be an easy answer to all of this :) > > 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. Again, I still had my TERM variable set to cons25. :/ > Anyway, i would also suggest to read the (not perfect) docs in the directory > /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/Doc ! Will do :) Thanks for all the help. Later, Dave +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Anderson | Partek on IRC | partek@indecent.com | partek@youth.org | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "We do not have to resign our vision to what 'the world is really like'. | | The roles of our past do not have to be the blueprint for our future. No | | fear. No hate. No limits. Anything is possible." - Unknown | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+