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From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Subject: Re: some pcvt quirks
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 07:20:57 +0200 (MET DST)
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>From the keyboard of Christoph P. Kukulies:

> Two quirks I immediately ran into when giving pcvt330 (never used pcvt
> before) a try:

> XFree86 Version 3.1.1 / X Window System

> Fatal server error:
> xf86OpenPcvt: VT_GETMODE failed
> Found pcvt driver but X11 seems to be not supported.
> Check your kernel's console driver configuration and /dev entries

Have you config'ed UCONSOLE and XSERVER ? And make shure pcvt_ioctl.h has
updated in /usr/include/machine AND /sys/i386/include before compiling 
anything.

I'd like to know what it was, 1) it runs fine here and 2) it has to go into
NotesAndHints ..

> The BACKSPACE key gives a 0x7f (DELETE) in vi; at least it would be nice
> if the default behaviour was ^H when one is moving from syscons to pcvt.

You are able to remap that key, have a look at the manual pages for kcon and
keycap.

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis           hm@altona.hamburg.com              Hamburg, Europe
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