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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Some questions/problems with codrv
Message-ID: <CA5H3H.42w@veda.is>
Date: 14 Jul 93 10:28:15 GMT
References: <CA20Ez.Dy1@obiwan.uucp>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox) writes:

>1.	I cannot switch to ttyv6 with the F7 key.  Codrv seems to ignore
>	the Ctl-Alt-F7 hot key.  Hitting Ctl-Alt-F7 appears to result
>	in the same escape sequence that I get when hitting only 
>	Ctl-F7.

Also pressing any Ctl-Alt-F* combination while the corresponding virtual console
is already selected results in the ESC-[k to ESC-[v codes appearing (partially?)
on the display i.e. it ends up in the input buffer.

>3.	With my monochrom VGA monitor, things that should be highlighted
>	(they were reverse video with syscons) are not.  If I turn the 
>	intensity way up I can see a faintly lighter background.

All special effects didn't work any more for me. I thought this was because the
new pc3 termcap entry was missing a tc=pc at the end, but I might be wrong here.

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adam@veda.is