Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:56:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Ben J. Cohen" <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904121155180.3957-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904112235440.805-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk>
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On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Ben J. Cohen wrote: > I have two questions which should be straightforward to answer but I > couldn't find them in the mailing lists, etc. > > Firstly, when using some applications, particularly vi, in an xterm under > X the numeric keypad produces garbage like > y > x > w > v > u > this when I try to use it to get numbers. You _do_ have NumLock on, right? I've not had this problem since the 2.1.X days. > I have > > # Let the server do the NumLock processing. This should only be required > # when using pre-R6 clients > ServerNumLock > > in XF86Config. (This is necessary to make other applications work > properly.) > > Is there any way to stop this from happening? Take that directive out; it makes NumLock do nutty things. > Secondly, kernel messages go to the console. Is there any way of > redirecting the console to, say, /dev/ttyv2 so that when I log in on ttyv0 > I don't get lots of messages appearing on the screen? No, since /dev/console is glued to that vty. Just use a different vty; we do here. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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