From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 28 12:06:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA09792 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 12:06:51 -0700 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA09775 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 12:06:45 -0700 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0t9GW3-000I1WC; Sat, 28 Oct 95 20:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0t9GF8-00001PC; Sat, 28 Oct 95 19:44 MET Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Going to pcvt To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 19:44:34 +0100 (MET) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Oct 28, 95 10:45:04 am Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1637 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?