Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:25:31 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jhenders@bogon.com (John Henders) Cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug/wierdness in syscons driver Message-ID: <199512160155.MAA27890@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <m0tQFrS-000PuWC@stdismas.bogon.com> from "John Henders" at Dec 14, 95 07:46:21 am
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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." [[
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