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| author | Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-11-13 05:54:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-11-13 05:54:55 +0000 |
| commit | e42fc368672e8c3f1d30fbbd7f1903e3baa69b7a (patch) | |
| tree | 6e11d518cb9008f7a76b1c206c21c622e2874f34 /etc/etc.powerpc | |
| parent | 347c7f559c46fa6149efda89c468411d7912b456 (diff) | |
| download | src-e42fc368672e8c3f1d30fbbd7f1903e3baa69b7a.tar.gz src-e42fc368672e8c3f1d30fbbd7f1903e3baa69b7a.zip | |
Switch the default terminal emulation style to xterm for most platforms.
Right now syscons(4) uses a cons25-style terminal emulator. The
disadvantages of that are:
- Little compatibility with embedded devices with serial interfaces.
- Bad bandwidth efficiency, mainly because of the lack of scrolling
regions.
- A very hard transition path to support for modern character sets like
UTF-8.
Our terminal emulation library, libteken, has been supporting
xterm-style terminal emulation for months, so flip the switch and make
everyone use an xterm-style console driver.
I still have to enable this on i386. Right now pc98 and i386 share the
same /etc/ttys file. I'm not going to switch pc98, because it uses its
own Kanji-capable cons25 emulator.
IMPORTANT: What to do if things go wrong (i.e. graphical artifacts):
- Run the application inside script(1), try to reduce the problem and
send me the log file.
- In the mean time, you can run `vidcontrol -T cons25' and `export
TERM=cons25' so you can run applications the same way you did before.
You can also build your kernel with `options TEKEN_CONS25' to make all
virtual terminals use the cons25 emulator by default.
Discussed on: current@
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=199243
Diffstat (limited to 'etc/etc.powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/etc.powerpc/ttys | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/etc/etc.powerpc/ttys b/etc/etc.powerpc/ttys index 96408ed7830b..b85b2bfdac59 100644 --- a/etc/etc.powerpc/ttys +++ b/etc/etc.powerpc/ttys @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ # # type The initial terminal type for this port. For hardwired # terminal lines, this will contain the type of terminal used. -# For virtual consoles, the correct type is typically cons25. +# For virtual consoles, the correct type is typically xterm. # Other common values include network for network connections on # pseudo-terminals, dialup for incoming modem ports, and unknown # when the terminal type cannot be predetermined. @@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ # when going to single-user mode. console none unknown off secure # -ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure +ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure # Virtual terminals -ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure -ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure -ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure -ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure -ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure -ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure -ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure +ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure +ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure +ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure +ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure +ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure +ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure +ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" xterm on secure #ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. |