Chris Gilbert wrote:
Much nicer. I'm glad I'm not the only one that hated the default WSCONS font choice for acorn32.FYI,over the past few weeks I've been updating the acorn32 console code in -current to hopefully improve it's usability. Highlights include: * virtual console support added. To enable make sure wscons=YES is in your /etc/rc.conf, then use ctrl-alt-fx to switch console * colour console. I've set the flag to indicate we can do colour on the console * console scrollback. shift+page-up and shift+page-down should scroll the console up and down* kernel messages are in green, so they stand out* the default font is the default NetBSD 8-pixel wide font, rather than the sony one we previously used.
* Console beep - fixed a 3 year old bug that stopped beep working on the console.
:).
One caveat is that I've not tested these changes with an X server yet, so it's possible I might have broken something, but I'm hoping I haven't.I did try X but I got an unable to initialise framebuffer error. I wouldn't worry about that too much as I couldn't even guarantee that X was working with the last kernel I used.
Changes were tested on an A7000+ and SA Risc-PC with 2MB VRAM at 800x600 in 8bpp colour.
Working nicely here on a 1024x768 8bpp SA RiscPC (also with 2MB VRAM).
I found the following. When running at 1024x768 I was able to scrollback more lines than were available in the text buffer but I'm not sure if thats a general wscons scrollback feature or not.Known issues: * 4bpp colour isn't working for some reason, need to investigate * scrollback only works after switching virtual console.
I also see console beeps causing occasional glitching of the screen. However thats minor compared to the aurateconv error that used to be there. I never could figure out what caused that bug. :)
Thanks for doing all this. Actually makes the console on acorn32 a pretty nice environment.Feedback (positive or negative :) would be good.