From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 29 03:32:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA03685 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 03:32:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA03675 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 03:32:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0ts6aZ-000I8oC; Thu, 29 Feb 96 12:32 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0ts6G5-00001UC; Thu, 29 Feb 96 12:10 MET Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: pcvt tweaking To: ernie@spooky.eis.net.au (Ernie Elu) Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 12:10:53 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602282239.IAA11990@spooky.eis.net.au> from "Ernie Elu" at Feb 29, 96 08:39:43 am Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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 instead of ctrl+alt+F ? You have to hack the source to make it work. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?