[ On Friday, December 1, 2000 at 20:42:50 ( +0100), Matthias Drochner wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: wscons 
>
> uebayasi@soum.co.jp said:
> > AFAIK, wscons is broken in 1.5 in that it can't use more than 80x24
> > (i.e. default) terminal sizes and other fonts.
> 
> Not really.

Really!

> As I just wrote in response to the "wscons fonts" thread, there might
> be a problem with the startup scripts trying to access /usr/share
> before mounting it.
> critical_filesystems="/usr /usr/share"
> in /etc/rc.conf should help.

There's definitely been some problems with wscons on some systems.  I've
had no luck getting larger screen sizes to work (or rather in getting
smaller fonts) loaded on a couple of machines now.  I've not tried the
latest cut of 1.5 yet, but I can assure you that the problems are not in
the startup scripts -- I don't have a separate /usr filesystem, and I've
monkeyed about manually trying to configure the screens to no avail.

One possibly related thing I've noticed is that you can't even
reconfigure virtual consoles reliably -- a full reboot is often
necessary.

I still haven't figured out how to coerce the system into giving me a
larger screen on the main console either.  It partly works, but seems to
get rather confused after switching back and forth between other virtual
consoles.

I've finally got a real test machine and as soon as I can get it
upgraded (which is as soon as I can do another re-build of -current and
get the full release sets built) I'll try some more experiments (though
it'll soon go in the rack too and not see a monitor connected to it
except for during dire emergencies).

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