From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 14 07:46:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA09201 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 07:46:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from stdismas.bogon.com (root@stdismas.bogon.com [204.191.163.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA09188 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 07:46:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by stdismas.bogon.com (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.7 #30.4 #4) id m0tQFrS-000PuWC; Thu, 14 Dec 95 07:46 PST Message-Id: From: jhenders@bogon.com (John Henders) Subject: bug/wierdness in syscons driver To: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 07:46:21 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7 SL] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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? -- Artificial Intelligence stands no chance against Natural Stupidity. GAT d- -p+(--) c++++ l++ u++ t- m--- W--- !v b+++ e* s-/+ n-(?) h++ f+g+ w+++ y*