From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 08:16:14 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18B52616 for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 08:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x234.google.com (mail-we0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A70C6D58 for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 08:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f180.google.com with SMTP id t61so2106505wes.25 for ; Thu, 08 May 2014 01:16:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YiJ6qN6usrSrOYZgDAH8W0QzkSccX9EQahf1gYqFsew=; b=j+tEy6AhqXW3lQFoMDMEnoyitPy/UIQpqnCWnR3Ygcl5fbAdcbOGUcH59pqaj/uqyE pz2hjUfMGk2D5u1GdKwQ0/JrhdLbhXpPWfFzEFl2KTcM26DoANKBfwUJP23I8tKY2KDx o0Q+ucmMgTzjqAvDknFweRDPKx/xj56B15seJf+wNRAFeVOCJKzZ4CCM2lBXxVBswStG gHuWoDO2gqowePhpS2/jTqkaDkFE8O2KBJ/Ib2IEYRbtBg5IaUwXWPdN4f9AVS+FHOff qX68zYDh+vDWAvy6I04iufQAr6ELUkK/a9yJ9BbjKrqxXEzCK+bx1/3YxD40tWKMed0J 9CiA== X-Received: by 10.194.24.194 with SMTP id w2mr1872014wjf.25.1399536971757; Thu, 08 May 2014 01:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (163.66.91.91.rev.sfr.net. [91.91.66.163]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id c7sm378358wjf.19.2014.05.08.01.16.10 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 08 May 2014 01:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <536B3D47.2070601@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 10:16:07 +0200 From: David Demelier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Questions and *little* bugs in new vt(9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 08:16:14 -0000 Hi there, I'm currently trying vt(9) on a CURRENT kernel (only the kernel not the base). I have very small bugs, not really serious. I'm currently using the radeon KMS driver. * When I switch from a tty to X I can see the mouse appearing but the tty is still displayed until I move the mouse. Or until I wait something like 3 seconds. It sounds like a small refresh trouble. * When I don't use the native resolution (i.e the radeon firmwares are not loaded) switching from a tty to another results sometimes in a black screen when only some colors are displayed. This does not seems to appear when the native resolution is set. And some questions: * Will you add support for dead keys? I have a UK keyboard and when I want to write french characters like à ô ê I usually press the ` character then a. Same for ^ then o and e. To accomplish this, I use the extd variant in Xorg. This let me to press the dead ` character before a. It would be great to add this support to the vt (or maybe it is already done but I was not able to modify .kdb files to support that). Thanks for your great work on vt(9) and I'm very happy to have full unicode support and a quick tty switch :-). PS: this is more a personal opinion, but I really prefer the syscons font rather than the vt(9)'s one. Regards, David.