Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 20:50:09 GMT From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/90082: [syscons] [patch] curses ACS line graphics support for iso15 fonts Message-ID: <200512072050.jB7Ko9Xq059214@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/90082; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG, Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
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Subject: Re: conf/90082: [syscons] [patch] curses ACS line graphics support for iso15 fonts
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:47:33 +0100 (CET)
Just a small addendum ...
1. If you just want to test that stuff or play with it on
your own machine:
a. Run the provided script as root in this directory:
/usr/share/syscons/fonts
b. Activate the new fonts:
vidcontrol -f iso15-8x8
vidcontrol -f iso15-8x14
vidcontrol -f iso15-8x16
c. Modify the "cons25l1" line in /usr/share/misc/termcap
as explained in the PR above (i.e. update the "ac"
capability line).
d. Update the termcap.db database file:
cd /usr/share/misc; cap_mkdb termcap
e. Make sure that the "ttyv*" lines in /etc/ttys have
"cons24l1" as the terminal type (the second-to-last
character is a lower-case L, not the digit one).
If you need to update /etc/ttys, type "kill -HUP 1"
afterwards, so the init process will re-read it.
f. Log out and log in again (on a virtual terminal).
Now run a curses-based program which uses line-drawing
characters for window borders or similar, for example
sysinstall or midnight commander. You should see "real"
graphical lines instead of "-" and "+" characters.
Also, all ISO8859-15 characters still work, which you
can easily test by typing "cat /usr/share/misc/latin1".
2. If you want to incorporate the changes into the official
FreeBSD repository (if you're a committer):
a. Run the provided script as root in this directory:
/usr/src/share/syscons/fonts
b. The new iso15-8x*.fnt files don't contain the CVS ID
lines. Copy them from the original files. Then
check the modified files into the repository. These
are the modified files:
iso15-8x8.fnt
iso15-8x14.fnt
iso15-8x16.fnt
c. Modify the "cons25l1" line in the termcap source
file: /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src, as
explained in the PR above (i.e. update the "ac"
capability line).
By the way, the same modification could be made to the
ISO8859-1 fonts (iso-8x*.fnt). But I'm not sure if it's
worth it, because -1 isn't so widely used anymore, in
favour of -15 because it contains the Euro sign (among
few other changes).
Best regards
Oliver
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