From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 12:31:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 079AC37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Shenton.org (23.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7C7F43FBF for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:31:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 37192 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Aug 2003 19:31:36 -0000 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Chris Shenton Date: 04 Aug 2003 15:31:34 -0400 Message-ID: <864r0xw76x.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: emoor#freebsd.org@Shenton.Org Subject: PC-style Console rendering with remote Xterm or rxvt? MEGAMGR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 19:31:39 -0000 One of the four WD1200JB disks on my Dell CERC ATA RAID controller died and I'm trying to get at the controller remotely. Previously, I used: http://people.freebsd.org/~emoore/MegaRAID_SCSI/UserInterfaceGUI/MegaMGR.tgz which replicates the BIOS-level text interface to the controller: create/destroy arrays, silence alarm (!), rebuild array... I used it at the system text console, which does not emulate a vt100. It's very convenient because I don't shutdown the system as I do with the boot-time BIOS utility. I'm currently remote and getting into the box remotely using xterm or rxvt. When I startup MEGAMGR, the text is briefly readable then gets turned into something that looks like PC-line-drawing characters or other unreadable trash. Thus, this cool utility is unavailable to me remotely. Even when I'm home, this box lives in the basement and I'd prefer to have a network-aware way to talk to it -- that I can read :-). I'm guessing it's using various PC-style Console characters and line drawing chars that are not present on xterm nor rxvt. Is there some kind of terminal I can use which does emulate the console behavior (is this termcap's "at386" or something)? Or is it fonts/charsets I don't have? I looked in ports but didn't see anything which sounded relevant. I just got a little success by cruising the termcap file and selecting one which said it didn't do the pseudographics, from within my xterm: setenv TERM vt100-nac It kinda works but it's a little ugly and still difficult to read for using such a powerful/dangerous tool. Suggestions welcomed. Thanks.