From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 9 23:14:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA26672 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 23:14:40 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA26634 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 23:14:34 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA11685; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 08:14:32 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA00253 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 17:13:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA03037 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 15:48:49 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507091348.PAA03037@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: some pcvt quirks To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 15:48:48 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199507091152.NAA00859@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Jul 9, 95 01:52:47 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1439 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > 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 Well, read just the above sentence (i did my best to be as clear as possible when i wrote this), and then the LINT file: #options XSERVER # include code for XFree86 I don't know why XSERVER has been removed from syscons (or has it never been there? maybe), pcvt always required it for those who intend to run an X server. However, it used to be in the default config file previously. > 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. No way. :-) Pcvt has never been generating a backspace, and as long as i'm maintaining it, will never by default. Modify the source, or run kcon -m blah if you love backspaces... i don't. (But PLEEZE, don't start another useless discussion about this topic, folks.) Well, if you don't like the personal argument (though this is _only_ a matter of personal taste), buy this: pcvt is emulating a DEC VT series terminal, and early VT100's weren't even able to generate something else than a DEL for that key. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)