Subject: Re: TGA console problem
To: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
From: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/22/2000 12:44:03
On 08/22/2000 07:59:03 AM GMT "R. C. Dowdeswell" wrote:
>
>On 966797743 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
>"Christian Groessler" wrote:
>>
>>First, and more important:
>>I use bash as shell. If on the new console I type some chars
>>then use ctrl-a to go back to the start of the line and try to
>>insert some chars, _the_whole_line_ (i,e. also chars to the
>>left of the cursor) is moved one character position to the right.
>>It's also not done 100% correctly, so after a few inserted
>>chars the complete line is more or less unreadable...
>
>How large is your display?  Mine is at 1280x1024 and I can't
>seem to reproduce this one.

I have a lower resolution:

tga0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: DC21030 step B, board type T8-02
tga0: 804 x 600, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
tga0: interrupting at isa irq 14
wsdisplay0 at tga0: console (std, vt100 emulation)


>>Second,
>>if I enter and leave X, the screen is set to black chars
>>on white bg, and I don't know how to change it back.
>
>Okay, I see this one too.  I have looked a bit and it would
>be pretty trivial to hack the Xserver to put the cmap back into
>a sane state, but I've been thinking that perhaps the kernel
>should do this one when the Xserver exits so that we don't have
>to rely on the Xserver playing nice (or not getting -9ed.)
>Opinions?
>
>Anyway, attached please find a tiny program that I just wrote
>which works:

Thanks. I will try it out tonight (when the make build has
finished:-)

regards,
chris