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From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Date: 26 Mar 1997 13:05:11 GMT
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> - stderr and stdout seems to be hard wired with ttyv0; this causes
strange
> effects on the screen when e.g. a login on ttyv1 is done
I bet, what you saw were syslog messages directed either to root or
with root logged in on ttyv0 or messages to /dev/console.
This has nothing to do with stderr.
man syslog, man syslog.conf
> - color X-terminals (e.g. rxvt) don't use color by default (still don't
> know how to change this)
~/.Xdefaults
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: -color
#endif
(if you log in via XDM)
> also the kernel reports "sio0: not found on 0x3f8" - the PC setup shows
> COM1 at exactly this address and a 16550 compatible UART is used (Linux
has
> no problems with this!)
have you set your COM1 to IRQ 4? This is hardwired in the FreeBSD kernel,
no autodetect.
> - because of the absence of a nice window manager in the FreeBSD version
> that I use, I decided to work with olvwm - with the result, that some
xview
> programs that are part of the "usual" xview distribution are missing
> (props, textedit)
Get fvwm ;-)
See, FreeBSD consideres itself as an operating system, i.e. it provides
you with the basis.
A window manager - which everyone customizes anyway - is an application
program, that you have to install separately.
> - my DEL key doesn't act as normal but like the BACKSPACE key (DEL should
> delete the character below the actual cursor position and work to the
> right, not to the left!)
Try:
~/.Xdefaults
*VT100.Translations: #override \
<KeyPress>BackSpace: string(0x7f)\n\
<KeyPress>Delete: string(0x04)\n\
<KeyPress>Home: string(0x01)\n\
<KeyPress>End: string(0x05)\n
and
~/.emacs
(global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)
(global-set-key [home] 'beginning-of-line)
(global-set-key [end] 'end-of-line)
Patrick