Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:10:53 +0100 (MET) From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: ernie@spooky.eis.net.au (Ernie Elu) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt tweaking Message-ID: <m0ts6G5-00001UC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <199602282239.IAA11990@spooky.eis.net.au> from "Ernie Elu" at Feb 29, 96 08:39:43 am
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>From the keyboard of Ernie Elu:
> I am trying to run pcvt in 132 column mode under FreeBSD 2.1 as the
> 80column limit on the standard syscons driver is a waste on my 17" screen.
>
> pcvt seems to be working except for a couple of things.
>
> Underlined text comes out as white text on an orange background with no
> underline at all.
This is ok! Normally a VGA connected to a colour monitor cannot underline
so the underline attribute is mapped by default to the colours you told us.
> Bold text comes out as white text on a blue background.
This is also ok! Because a VT220 can display more characters than a standard
VGA font RAM can hold, the intense bit was remapped to support the display
of more characters and the intense attribute was mapped to blue.
> Any ideas on how to get these working right?
They are working "right" - you simply cannot get "all" out of the limited
capabilities of a VGA in character mode.
> Anyone know how to get coloured text on the 132 x 40 screen?
By using ANSI escape sequences, a demo can be found in
/usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/demo/colors.vt.gz.uu.
> scon -p does not seem to do anything.
It does, have a look at man scon or the various files under
/usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/Doc.
> Also has anyone hacked the keyboard setup so that you can switch consoles
> with alt+F<n> instead of ctrl+alt+F<n> ?
You have to hack the source to make it work.
hellmuth
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