Enabling wscons=yes in rc.conf did the trick...

thanks,

Steve
On Apr 24, 2005, at 20:45, Matthew Orgass wrote:

> On 2005-04-24 roryoc@nc.rr.com wrote:
>
>> I asked about the multiple consoles (tty sessions accessed with alt-1,
>> att-2, etc. - or some such key combo), and was told a package needs to
>> be installed for that IIRC -  you might search for posts by me, and
>> responses from about 6-8 months ago I'm thinking (back when I was
>> actively trying this out on a MobilePro 780 - gave up for various
>> reasons after I got a base installation working with X and wifi, but
>> continuing to monitor in case the X support improves, and a decent
>> browser becomes available , which Minimo just might be...)
>
>   You can do Ctl-Alt-FN switching with WSCONS=yes in/etc/rc.conf or by
> wsconscfg -e vt100 N where N is the number to use.  On my Clio, after
> adding support for the Function keys (see port-hpcmips/28383) I found 
> that
> not all keys passed the phantom key detector and I cannot use screens 
> 2,
> 3, or 9 (IIRC), however the rest work.  I would guess the package
> mentioned was GNU screen, which is nice for this kind of thing and lets
> you use an arbitrary number of consoles, does copy and paste, and has
> other fun features.
>
>   I haven't used X on my Clio for a while, but I have been trying dillo
> and links-gui on my i386 machine (and using ion as window manager, 
> which
> works well with these as they do not have tabbed browsing).  They are 
> both
> making significant progress; links-gui is the better browser at this 
> point
> IMO, although is much larger (partly due to doing its own fonts; text 
> of
> the binary is about 3.5x dillo, main binary is almost 10x).  The
> javascript in links-gui works well with simple things, although it can 
> get
> confused for more complex scripts.
>
> Matthew Orgass
> darkstar@city-net.com
>