-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Jun 23, 2012, at 6:39 PM, John D. Baker wrote:
Returning to this issue with more data. On Sun, 6 May 2012, John Nemeth wrote:
On Aug 22, 12:26am, "John D. Baker" wrote:
^^^^^^
I think someone's clock is off. My "sent" mailbox shows 6 May 2012.
Anyway...
Booting GENERIC with the stock "/etc/wscons.conf" elicits:
wsconscfg: WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: Device not configured
wsconscfg: WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: Device not configured
wsconscfg: WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: Device not configured
on the console and:
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (std, sun emulation)
recorded in 'dmesg'.
While on screen 0, Stop-F2 through Stop-F4 do apparently nothing.
Stop-F5
switches to a blank white screen with a grey cursor in the top-leftcorner, presumedly screen 4. Again, Stop-F2 through Stop-F4 do apparently
nothing and Stop-F1 switches back to the terminal output on screen 0. Just to see what would happen, I turned on the "screen 5" example in "wscons.conf" and tried restarting wscons. I got: wsconscfg: screen 4 is already configuredand the "not configured" message for all of the other screens, including
the one I just tried to enable. Possible clue here: Instead of screen 5 having a terminal emulation defined on it, I made a duplicate of screen 4: #screen 0 - vt100 screen 1 - vt100 screen 2 - vt100 screen 3 - vt100 screen 4 - - screen 5 - - #screen 4 80x25bf vt100# Note: You must uncomment the 'font ibm' line above to get a useful
# font for any 50 line screens. #screen 5 80x50 vt100 When I restarted wscons, wsdisplay0: screen 5 added (std, sun emulation)
Hmm, I'd suspect that the sparc GENERIC kernel is only built with Sun terminal emulation support.
Does it work if you s/vt100/sun in wscons.conf? have fun Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEVAwUBT+ZoGMpnzkX8Yg2nAQJknwf+JHi3feGgCuUDncQEmOj9OGtQiHATfwbx taj2H3SdeGse8g50E5wM1xvo8mSrU8GW/aQIT754AFRwHLLbZYw1I8eNyN+H18+C ekNXzpsCtwA66kpvtTRBIYajd81lYaRikio79RwFAOD56BatUpppVtIXk5dFV1tE vjXA5Wkwby4RJNrPZ+Vp0QK5JllEnMnHEY19HU0JaXyV/3xV4C3iiwG3iYPFgdtM 2tJBA4qLjCFs23Rxl/eHSQr1lEwVzSKYeNpb2QLmFZ/nvTe/sjXh4T8Rtn+EP+8T NUrw9WRXsl8jZMPFJ2y/BDjQX9wBvK4C6OFbe4oJu+KKWhSDpClzfg== =502Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----