Re: looking for testers of new console

Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:45:25PM -0400, David Walter wrote: >> This copies the /dev/klog to tty10, if you have this active in /etc/ttys >> you will see the boot log on tty10. (a+f10) > > This should be done via syslog.conf if it is desired. Witho

Re: looking for testers of new console

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:45:32PM +0200, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: > keyboard support and connect with ncurses from a different machine. > Ncursesw worked but vga did not refresh. It just did not restore the screen on exit. When I restarted it the screen refreshed correctly. -- Michal

Re: looking for testers of new console

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:21:04PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > It's not ported to oskit-mach yet. You can try to compile the > console-client with -DOSKIT_MACH. Eventually, I will change it to Because pc_kbd does not work with oskit I tried to run console w/o keyboard support and connec

Re: looking for testers of new console

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:45:25PM -0400, David Walter wrote: > This copies the /dev/klog to tty10, if you have this active in /etc/ttys > you will see the boot log on tty10. (a+f10) This should be done via syslog.conf if it is desired. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU

Re: looking for testers of new console

David Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have added a run-daemon program that takes its arguments as a > program to run and wait on, if the program dies it restarts it and > waits again. I follow up with the run-daemon program I am using to restart the console vga client at boot, or on

Re: looking for testers of new console

Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:08:04AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >> Then you should add the terminals to ttys, so you get a login session >> on them at boot time. Edit the file /etc/ttys, and add the following >> lines (or similar if you made more/

Re: looking for testers of new console

Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:20:25AM -0400, David Walter wrote: >> But, I had the following error when trying to scroll back after using >> this for a while. >> >> console: ../../hurd/console-client/ncursesw.c:462: ncursesw_scroll: >> Assertion 'delt

Re: looking for testers of new console

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:20:25AM -0400, David Walter wrote: > But, I had the following error when trying to scroll back after using > this for a while. > > console: ../../hurd/console-client/ncursesw.c:462: ncursesw_scroll: > Assertion 'delta >= 0' failed. > Aborted. This is only supposed to

Re: looking for testers of new console

David Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Note that you should redirect /dev/console then. Try Roland's new fsysopts >> for term to do that. >> >>> I tried adding export TERM=mach-color but it failed still and then >>> started the default

Re: looking for testers of new console

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:32:36AM +0200, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: > It fails to start on oskit-mach (the deb packaged). > It says vga driver failed to initialize. It's not ported to oskit-mach yet. You can try to compile the console-client with -DOSKIT_MACH. Eventually, I will change

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It fails to start on oskit-mach (the deb packaged). It says vga driver failed to initialize. -- Michal Suchanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: looking for testers of new console

Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that you should redirect /dev/console then. Try Roland's new fsysopts > for term to do that. > >> I tried adding export TERM=mach-color but it failed still and then >> started the default console. > > Do you talk about the ncursesw client

Re: looking for testers of new console

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:54:46PM -0400, David Walter wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Note: You should not remove the existing entry. At least not if you want to > > be able to login locally :) > > > > Later, when the console client is started in the boot scripts, th

Re: looking for testers of new console

Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note: You should not remove the existing entry. At least not if you want to > be able to login locally :) > > Later, when the console client is started in the boot scripts, the console > entry should be removed (in fact, if you feel adventurous, you

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On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:08:04AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > # console -d ncursesw /dev/vts > > or > > # console -d vga -d pc_kbd -d generic_speaker /dev/vts This should be /dev/vcs in both cases (not /dev/vts). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.o

Re: looking for testers of new console

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:08:04AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Then you should add the terminals to ttys, so you get a login session > on them at boot time. Edit the file /etc/ttys, and add the following > lines (or similar if you made more/less ttys): > > tty1"/libexec/getty 38400"

looking for testers of new console

Hi, the new Hurd console is now part of the source and of the latest Debian package. This is the time to let as many people as possible test it to get feedback and bug reports, before the development is continued. Please let me know how it works for you. This is only tested on two VGA cards so