From f49c0a7c600c8c62878936032e4c44846070a9b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ed Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:54:55 +0000 Subject: 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@ --- etc/etc.powerpc/ttys | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'etc/etc.powerpc') 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. -- cgit v1.1