Thank you Peter, your advice really helped. I did not
realize that this would be related to a "bash" or
shell setting. From the reading I had done under
wscons, I figured I had to make a change to the
wscons.conf file.

> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:26:26AM -0700, mowestusa
> wrote:
> > When trying to start it throws up the error:
> > Fatal error: exception Failure("Your terminal
> emulator
> > does not support color.")"

> --- Peter Bex <Peter.Bex@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Try setting the environment variable $TERM to one of
> 'wsvt25', 'ansi'
> or, if all else fails, 'screen' or 'xterm'.
> 
> In Bourne shells, this is done with
> export TERM=wsvt25

This worked when added to my ".bash_profile"

> > Is there anyway to get a "full screen" virtual
> > terminal and in color?
> 
> You can also use the recently added VESA framebuffer
> support, but
> I believe you will need NetBSD 4.0 BETA or -CURRENT
> for that.

I guess I will have to live with 80x25 and an 1.5" of
blank space on the top and on the bottom. Right now
I'm using NetBSD 3.1 on this old laptop, and I will
probably wait to use NetBSD 4.0 until it becomes the
stable production ready branch. After I do a 4.0
install I will look into recompiling the kernal to
enable framebuffer.


> This information has been added to the NetBSD
> Guide's section on wscons
> during the recent Documentation Hackathon.  See
>
http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-cons.html#chap-cons-wscons-wsdisplay

This is an excellent update to the NetBSD
documentation. I found that it went into detail in a
number of areas where I lacked understanding. I
appreciated the reference to the $TERM which solved my
issue. Thank you for the link.

Steve
mowestusa@yahoo.com


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