From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 10:21:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA26854 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:21:06 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA26848 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:21:05 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA18597; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:12:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509111712.KAA18597@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: cons25 and vt100 To: partek@indecent.com (David Anderson) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:12:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "David Anderson" at Sep 11, 95 02:31:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1572 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I tried that.. There were some problems.. > > Local console: > 1- All stuff that was supposed to be bold, was blue. 8-). Direct mapping of the mono attribute bits to the CGA attribute values. What's "bold" on a color screen? > 2- The screen would constanly become garbled. I would be typing something > at the commandline and suddenly the cursor would just jump to the > other side of the screen. What video card do you have; sounds like a non-linear VGA memory map? > 3- When the system boots up, everything is white on a red background. Not > necessarily a problem, but it looks strange. Another attribute mapping. I'd say PCVT was under the impression that your card was a mono card; does it emulate one? This could cause it to mis-probe the card. You may want to look at the dmesg output for boot and see what probe messages it puts out to you. Then contact the author for advice. > Remote systems: > 1- When I do either a setenv TERM vt220(or even vt100), and run pine, the > screen turns to black text on a white background. I've seen this even on the default console. It looks like a clear screen is clearing with the attribute set. This is the way SCO consoles work, and is probably a requirement for compatability. > The thing is, I don't really want vt100/220 all the time. I just want it > for those times when I'm working on the remote systems. Screen is your best bet, then. Or X. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.