From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 29 18:26:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA14456 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 18:26:40 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA14447 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 18:26:29 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA13838; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:55:57 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511301255.MAA13838@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Problem with sio probe and Mach64 PCI video card To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:55:57 +0000 () Cc: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511282136.WAA11884@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 28, 95 10:36:25 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1584 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > As David Dawes wrote: > > > > As a side note, I tried PCVT (At first I wondered if syscons was causing > > a problem since that was the last message I initally saw flash up before > > the screen disappeared), and noticed that the arrow keys don't work in > > the visual mode of "/kernel -c". > > I think this is a known problem. pcvt defaults to the OA etc. > arrow key sequences. (I believe it should default to [A etc., > and only switch to "application mode" if requested.) As the author of visuserconfig(), let me lay this one totally to rest. At the stage in the system startup where userconfig() runs, none of the console drivers have been initialised. Each console driver provides a minimalist set of routines for use at that stage. Syscons gives weird numbers (possibly scancode-related) for cursor keys, serial consoles just pass through codes from the terminal, but pcvt doesn't actually recognise (or at lease, doesn't return anything for) the cursor keys. Hellmuth and I have spoken about this; at some stage, he expects to be able to do something about it. Until then, don't use visuserconfig() under pcvt 8) > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[