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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!news.u.washington.edu!milton!sand From: sand@milton.u.washington.edu (Derek Upham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386bsd: 16550, color, vt100 Message-ID: <sand.714341461@milton> Date: 20 Aug 92 20:11:01 GMT References: <1992Aug19.195743.13499@engage.pko.dec.com> Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Washington Lines: 38 eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco) writes: >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. 386BSD does recognize 16550A FIFOs; check the boot-time messages. The problem seems to be in the distributed "com.c". A stopgap solution is to bring your DTE transmission rate as far down as you can afford (this will reduce the problem, but may not entirely solve it). Once you're ready to reconfigure your kernel, install the experimental "com.c" at agate.berkeley.edu. It seems to fix a lot of the problems. >Second: Is there any way to change the text color to green? I hate >white. Will ANSI colors work? Check out /etc/rc. It has escape sequences that change the color at boot time. You should be able to fiddle with them and put something in /etc/rc.local. >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? 386BSD uses a "pc3" terminal type (check out the termcap file for more info). If you want ANSI/vt100 emulation, use "screen" once you've logged on. Be warned that "screen" has a known bug (get the Unofficial Buglist for more info), and that ANSI emulation tends to be more successful than vt100 emulation (at least with the shipped "com.c"). Derek -- Derek Lynn Upham University of Washington sand@u.washington.edu University Computing Services Operations ============================================================================= "Ha! Your Leaping Tiger Kung Fu is no match for my Frightened Piglet Style!"