Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 16:51:40 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com> Cc: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reasons for keeping sc(4) and libvgl ? Message-ID: <20211127165140.7dd38b9448f8653e557829e4@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <CACc-My2sLZ8yFfVrX1P_UP1b4Bpf4V3bY=Qh6-ewXX3Vu%2BY-Dw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20211126160454.3eb827365a02103169ab9adc@bidouilliste.com> <CACc-My0%2B5zi9bsMpLWsOMmP8uiatTCBiJcvkOAS_3%2BXfrNWMvQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAPyFy2Dr0rEWxVYofskV-BULp%2BOKfW2SA-bvhmePpnUiayOw0w@mail.gmail.com> <CACc-My2sLZ8yFfVrX1P_UP1b4Bpf4V3bY=Qh6-ewXX3Vu%2BY-Dw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 20:06:13 +0100 Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com> wrote: > I encountered some other bugs in vt while I used it. > > Aside of the computers I am using for testing of my installer, I use > vt only in the time from installation of computers to when I get time > to configure/build a new kernel to remove vesa (and vt because it > pulls in vesa,ko) from the kernel to make suspend/resume work. So I > feel usually in some hurry when I want to get a system up and > running.. > > And then I am not in the mood to bother spending time making vt bug reports. > Maybe a reason that many of these bugs are not reported is that I love > to use mouse mark/paste in the console, and most of the bugs are > related to this. No idea how common it is to use mice in console mode; > if it is not common this might be why these bugs are apparently > under-reported. If you don't report the bugs don't expect them to be fixed ... > Almost all my computers still have CSM support, so I use that, as I do > not use Microsoft OSes. > > When time comes and I have to buy computers that do no longer support > CSM, I'll look into the sc source to add a VGA BIOS interrupt call to > change from UEFI graphics to text mode at initialization time. > This should be sufficient to support sc on UEFI machines. > Actually I do not understand why this has not yet been done. Because it's not possible ? > Do you think such a patch to make sc work on UEFI systems would be > accepted into FreeBSD? > > > On 11/26/21, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 10:45, Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> - vt is so horridly buggy that it is no fun to use it at all if one is > >> accustomed to well-working, bugfree sc(4). Just one example: > >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211922 > > > > This issue is waiting on feedback since 2021-09-25. There is one issue > > that's still reproducible when I last tested, but "horridly buggy" is > > quite a stretch. > > > -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@FreeBSD.org>
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