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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.uni.net.za!ru.uni.net.za!wits.uni.net.za!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: VT220 console Date: 22 Feb 1997 23:47:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 54 Message-ID: <5eo0i2$tp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3302AA50.2781E494@sh.cvut.cz> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35964 Jaroslav Klaus <j.klaus@sh.cvut.cz> wrote: (Ah, greetings to the CVUT. Studoval jsem tadyhle v 1986eho roku... :) > Does anybody have installed VT console on PC? I tried to install > VT220 console. I made new kernel (sc0 disable vt0 enable), end > edit ttys: > ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 on secure > > But after reboot I have to switch amoung consoles using > not only <alt><f..> but with <ctrl> Well, that's intention. The first four VTYs have a shortcut (F8 through F12, for historical reasons), but the generic way is Ctrl-Alt-Fn (same as in the Xserver, btw). > and midnigth commander > looks terribly - frames, function keys and arrows don't work > properly. Do I have to set keymap manually and recompile mc or > did I make some mistakes? Thank's a lot. pcvt sometimes has some problems with the box characters (alternate characterset). I never figured out why this happens. Hmm, i've played around a little. It's weird, i think pcvt behaves the way that is described in the VT320 manual. Apparently, the VT220 termcap entry doesn't match this way, however. If you change the following capabilities in your vt100-np entry in /usr/share/misc/termcap, it should work: cap from to as \E(0 \E(0^O # escape lparen zero control-o ae \E(B ^N\E(B Note that ncurses and/or libdialog seems to suffer from a bug where it sometimes doesn't call the `as' capability before starting a line; you can notice that the upper left corner from the outer box in tzsetup shows up as lqqqqqqq. This does also happen in xterm. Ah, no, i see pcvt's fault now. G0 is mapped into GL by default. Thus, calling \E(0 should be sufficient to designate the DEC special graphics character set as G0, which is already mapped. (\E(8 designates the ASCII set again.) Alas, the problem doesn't seem to be very trivial. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)