Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:27:01 -0800 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Subject: Re: Editing on the serial console Message-ID: <20190309012701.GA52286@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfob61=ay%2BrX9Da4PbtOSMkj7tdmVjLzHGx2iCVgsUCaZA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfo8BnVdCSmqWvC=auD_5t8_p06kQwx2bhDSTiyDVd%2B_qA@mail.gmail.com> <201903071913.x27JDbZR091956@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20190308055313.GB49607@www.zefox.net> <CANCZdfob61=ay%2BrX9Da4PbtOSMkj7tdmVjLzHGx2iCVgsUCaZA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 06:59:00AM -0800, Warner Losh wrote: > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 10:53 PM bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote: > > > The serial console is rather indespensible on an RPI, is there a way > > to configure it to be well-behaved with whatever terminal emulator > > is readily available? > > > > No. Termcap must match the terminal emulator. If it doesn't, then there > will be problems. At best, we could expand termcap with a special entry for > lxterminal if it can't cope with xterm entry. > It looks as if lxterminal on a Pi3 considers itself an xterm. That's to say env on a freshly-opened window reports TERM=xterm. When an RPi goes to single-user and says it's using dumb terminal setting, what is it expecting? Thanks for reading! bob prohaska
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