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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!pa.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!engage.pko.dec.com!irenaeus.mlo.dec.com!eje From: eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco) Subject: 386bsd: 16550, color, vt100 Message-ID: <1992Aug19.195743.13499@engage.pko.dec.com> Sender: newsdaemon@engage.pko.dec.com (USENET News Daemon) Reply-To: ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:57:43 GMT Lines: 33 I just installed 386bsd -- another new user! These are some problems I just encountered, from the looks of the newsgroup I may have more woes coming but hey I am still excited about 386bsd. First: I am running my modem at 9600/19200 bps and appear to be majorly losing characters. I have a 16550 AFN UART; does 386bsd support it? I think this is basically a requirement. I want to get slip running. Second: Is there any way to change the text color to green? I hate white. Will ANSI colors work? Third: 386BSD seems to want to implement ANSI/vt100 emulation, but it does an absolutely horrendous job of it. I can't even get a decent gnu emacs screen logged into my workstation. Maybe this has to do with dropping characters. Any ideas? Any new terminal drivers? I also want to report timeout problems doing an rz over the modem (sender: DECstation 3100, using the same sz program, probably). And a problem doing shutdown -todos; it says "cannot make dos active". These were reported by someone else. Looking forward to using 386bsd, Eric Ewanco ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com -- /=============================================================================\ | Eric Ewanco - Software Engineer For the rash and outrageous opinions ex-| | Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard MA pressed herein I alone am responsible; | | ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com they do not belong to DIGITAL(TM). | \==============================- 2 Th 2:15 -==================================/