Re: wscons

[Michael Shalayeff <mickey@lucifier.net>]

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Zak:
> I have been playing with wscons for awhile, the documentation
> doesnt seem to be right? to delete a con I do wsconscfg -d -F #
> and to add one I seem to have to do wsconscfg -t 80x50 -F #
> the example that is provided was wsconscfg -t 80x50 -e vt100 #
> would give an error saying device not configured, or device
> is configured while configured. and wsfontload doesnt seem to work?
> I see no mention in /etc/rc or rc.* with /etc/rc.wscons for the fontload?
> I do wsfontload -N testfont -h 14 -e ibm /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/vt220l.
> 814 it does show up in the wsfontload -l as an option, but if I remove
> the cons then readd with wsconscft -t 80x50 -F # it's still the same
> default font, is there something I am perhaps doing wrong? 

then, 8x14 is a wrong font for 80x50, which uses 8x8.

> the reason why im trying to adjust between various fonts is I am
> trying to get ansi to work right in the console for some full
> screen based stuff like colored irc clients, usually if I done
> printf "\033[m\033>033(U" it fixes up the colors but in this case
> doesnt seem to, has anyone else managed to get their colored
> ncurses/irc based stuff working on the console in -current?
> I couldnt get the colors to work right in 2.9 as well but it worked
> great in 2.8, just during the switch to wscons I could not get
> the ansi to show up quite right. I am currently running -current as of
> oct 1st, and the video card is a laptop display of s3 savage mx/ix
> I am assuming this to be a termcap or wscons problem, any help would
> be appreciated, I do not subscribe to this list, so a cc would be
> appreciated, thanks
> zach
> 


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