From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 14 17:53:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA11442 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:53:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA11437 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:53:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA27890; Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:25:32 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512160155.MAA27890@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: bug/wierdness in syscons driver To: jhenders@bogon.com (John Henders) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:25:31 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Henders" at Dec 14, 95 07:46:21 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk John Henders stands accused of saying: > > I've been trying to port Tom Hageman's jove version to FreeBSD and the > console handling doesn't seem to work right. It appears that there's a > problem with linewrap handling, though the termcap am entry is there. > What appens is that if there are lines wider than the screen, then for > some reason characters are getting wrapped when they shouldn't, so the > status bar gets overwritten, and jove gets confused about where the > cursor really is. As an experiment, I recompiled the kernel with the > pcvt driver instead of the syscons driver and jove then worked properly, > so I assume the problem is with the syscons driver. Jove also has no > problem on SCO, BSDI or Linux. Is this a known problem with the syscons > driver, and is there a workaround? I've noticed that syscons doesn't handle out-of-range cursor addressing in any sort of gracious fashion. This may be an issue. Also check the "standard" jove port on the off chance that there's something useful there. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[