From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 10:27:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2B116A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:27:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from web21503.mail.yahoo.com (web21503.mail.yahoo.com [66.163.169.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C24C843D3F for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:27:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sirloper@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040310182734.3368.qmail@web21503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.155.207.4] by web21503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:27:34 PST Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:27:34 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Cartwright To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Terminal Emulation X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:27:35 -0000 I know well that currently console emulation on freebsd/sparc64 more or less doesn't exist, which I'm pretty much OK with. Installing a headless system is something I have to deal with pretty much on a daily basis at work, and once you get SSH up and running it matters even less. However, since my freebsd/sparc64 machine is just a home test/dev machine I have to admit that it'd be nice occasionally to sit at the console and run X or even just be able to run vi if something goes wrong and I don't have my laptop at home to be able to serial into it. Anyway.. these are all old points, I'm sure, to this group so I won't spend any more time with it. My question really just boils down to this: Does anyone know if there are any plans to make console terminal emmulation work properly under freebsd/sparc64? I am not a developer, but I can't imagine it would be that difficult to borrow some code from the other BSD's (opena and net) which both are capable of running X locally and have full support for the sun terminal type. No worries if not, I'm just curious. I'll just stop plugging in the head each time a release comes out if someone in the dev team says, "don't look for it before 6-release" or something similar. Thanks in advance for any info. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com