Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 19:44:34 +0100 (MET) From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Going to pcvt Message-ID: <m0t9GF8-00001PC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951028104230.996A-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Oct 28, 95 10:45:04 am
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>From the keyboard of Chuck Robey:
> Are there any instructions anywhere about what I have to do to transition
> from syscons (which I've always used) to pcvt?
Unfortunately no.
You have to compile a new kernel, remove the comments from the following lines:
#device vt0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector pcrint
#options "PCVT_FREEBSD=210" # pcvt running on FreeBSD 2.0.5
#options XSERVER # include code for XFree86
And add a comment at the beginning of this line in your kernel config file:
device sc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr
Recompile and install the kernel generated from this config file.
The syscons specific boottime initialization which is normally done in
/etc/rc.i386 and /etc/sysconfig must be removed and pcvt specific boot-
time initialization may/must be configured, for an example of a pcvt
init file have a look at /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/Etc/rc.local.
Also the file /etc/ttys must be edited to replace the cons25 keywords
with either vt220 and/or the pcvt-specific entries to be found in the
termcap database.
Have a look at the files and directories below /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc
for documentation on pcvt and have a look at the man pages for kcon(1),
scon(1), cursor(1), loadfont(1) and ispcvt(1).
In case you succeed with the conversation, i would appreciate it if you
send in the actual procedure for inclusion in the to be build pcvt-FAQ :-)
Hope this helps,
hellmuth
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