Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 00:54:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg) Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, marcs@alive.ampr.ab.ca, FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: interest in syscons cut&paste patches for 2.1.5? Message-ID: <199609062254.AAA01367@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <199609062225.AAA00267@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "Sep 7, 96 00:25:22 am"
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In reply to Mikael Karpberg who wrote: > According to Mikael Karpberg: > > According to Marc Slemko: > > > I have updated my patches to 2.1.5 so they are up to date to Soren's > > > latest commit, and have packaged them up and made them available for ftp > > > at ftp://ftp.worldgate.com/pub/marcs/2_1_5.syscons-mouse.960905.tar.gz. > > > Directions are included in the tar file. > > > > Hmm... I did as told in the README file and I encountered a problem. > > Doesn't seem big, but... There is only ONE place where FONT_NONE can be found > > after applying the patch. (Did a grep and couldn't find more then that, at > > least. ..../*.c ..../*.h) That place is set_mode in syscons.c, and should be > > a define somehwere, I guess. Anyway, since it's not defined, my compile, not > > surprisingly, chokes and dies. :-( > > > > Ideas how to proceede? > > Maybe... > > #define FONT_NONE 0 Aiigh!!! it should be #define FONT_NONE 1 !!!! > The mouse pointer seems to work, but it's NOT good looking. I can move four > characters around, and these cover what I put them over, and are not > "see through" as I expected. In these four chars there are traces of a good > looking pointer, split up and spread around. :-) > I should mention I run with this in /etc/sysconfig (in case it's important): > keyboard="swedish.iso" > Font8xYY=iso-8xYY (YY = 16,14,8) Now this is endeed strange, unless there is something REALLY wrong with these patches (I cannot try them out, all my machines are running current). > I'm affraid I'm not quite sure what computer and graphics card I'm using, > on this machine. It's a Cyrix 486dx2 80Mhz, at least, 8MB ram. Not more then > 2 years old. I installed 2.1.5 just a few days ago, and it's a vertually > untouched source, except for this patch. Only thing I did was to go into > syscons.h and added "#define FONT_NONE 0x000" and changed HISTORY_SIZE to > 500*80. Hmm, I'd sure would be nice to know what graphics card you where having in there. You are not running with cached videomemory by any chance ?? That could screw you display... > Speaking of which, here's some ideas I've been thinking about: > > It's rather annoying to have to go into the source to set the scrollback length > for the consoles. It wasn't terribly easy to find the place to change, [bla bla deleted] > stuck on the console for one reason or the other, it's nice to have more than > 100 rows. RTFM !! man kbdcontrol watch for the -h option :) > More about syscons (?): > > I seem to remember the keyboard working correctly when I ran something like > 2.1-950412-SNAP, while using "keyboard=swedish.iso". It does weird things now > though. Enter on numeric keyboard brings me to ttyv2, there's no way (that me, > or any of my friends found) to get a telnet-escape character (^]), etc. > (Oh, this is only in console mode, ofcourse. In X it works fine.) > Where's the error? The swedish.iso file? > Anyone else noticed this? I know about the num enter, thats a bug allright (in the keymap) the other one ... I don't know where you would expect it to be.. > Oh, and also syscons: > > *sigh* One thing is annoying me TERRIBLY about syscons. That the beep is not > global amoung all ttys! If you get a talk or so on one of the ttyvXX screens > and you are working on another, or in X, you wont notice a thing. > VERY frustrating. A friend said that was fixed in 2.2. True? How would I go > about making it work in 2.1.5? Maybe add that to the syscons patch for 2.1.5, > if you make a new version, Marc? Or someone, let me in on how to do it? It is fixed in -current yes, you get a beep of a different pitch if its happening on another console... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..
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