From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 18 02:00:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA15002 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 02:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA14856; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 02:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA08329 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:55:17 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Wed, 18 Sep 96 11:55:17 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00462; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:39:45 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199609180839.MAA00462@nagual.ru> Subject: Re: (was Slow Etherlink) Syscons In-Reply-To: from "David Nugent" at "Sep 18, 96 05:48:55 pm" To: davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:39:45 +0400 (MSD) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, craigs@os.com, jab@rock.anchorage.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org (Soren Schmidt) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (Andrey A. Chernov) Organization: self X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > One problem I do have with the syscons driver, however, is the > cursor. I'm not one who things much of the blocky cursor, especially > since porting Crisp as an editor with it's neat ability to change > the cursor size over virtual/real spaces - it needs to have the > hardware cursor enabled (e.g. vidcontrol -c destructive) so the > cursor size can change. The problem is, the screen updates are > affected by enabling that, such that when typing at the shell > prompt, you often don't see characters that are typed until you > hit enter. > > Is this a known problem? I'm running 2.2-CURRENT if that is > relevent, although I noticed the same when I ran 2.1.5-RELEASE as > well. Right now I just have the editor enable the destructive > cursor while editing, and switch it back off when exiting via the > appropriate ANSI sequences. Unfortunately, while that's fine > while within that vt (Crisp itself seems unaffected by this 'bug' > - it seems only to happen with cooked stdio enabled, or maybe if > termios echo enabled since it occurs with tcsh as well; I > haven't really experimented all that much) - but the destructive > cursor is system wide, so switching to another vt while editing > brings the destructive cursor with it. Yes, it is known bug, I already report Soren about this thing. It was broken about month ago. The next manifistation of this bug is that scrolling not always occurse when answering to 'rm -i' response at the last line, but it is very hard to catch it. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/