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authored <ed@FreeBSD.org>2009-11-13 05:54:55 +0000
committered <ed@FreeBSD.org>2009-11-13 05:54:55 +0000
commitf49c0a7c600c8c62878936032e4c44846070a9b6 (patch)
tree6e11d518cb9008f7a76b1c206c21c622e2874f34 /etc/etc.powerpc
parent6be882dd7a15b655a994c3205f67ef9393bd866e (diff)
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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@
Diffstat (limited to 'etc/etc.powerpc')
-rw-r--r--etc/etc.powerpc/ttys18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/etc/etc.powerpc/ttys b/etc/etc.powerpc/ttys
index 96408ed..b85b2bf 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.
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