Re: Console overrun with SPARC64 on Sun V210

2015-03-11 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2015-03-11, John Long wrote: >> If you connect from, say, an xterm, you'll need TERM=xterm. > > I tried TERM=xterm and TERM=vt100 before I sent my initial mailing list > post. Nothing changed. Probably you had already run tset(1) before, which had set the tty rows/columns to the values from

Re: Console overrun with SPARC64 on Sun V210

2015-03-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
> > And if you're using unusual terminal sizes, you need to set rows > > and columns with stty(1). This isn't SSH, where the protocol > > transmits those terminal parameters to the remote side. > > Noted, thanks. Not sure what the problem was, the emulator is a standard > size and it doesn't work

Re: Console overrun with SPARC64 on Sun V210

2015-03-11 Thread John Long
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 05:45:48PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2015-03-11, John Long wrote: > > > I just installed 5.6 on a Sun V210. The console doesn't seem to know how big > > the terminal emulator screen is. Whether I use cu or minicom too many lines > > are displayed. > > By def

Re: Console overrun with SPARC64 on Sun V210

2015-03-11 Thread John Long
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:12:46AM -0600, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:05 AM, John Long wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just installed 5.6 on a Sun V210. The console doesn't seem to know how big > > the terminal emulator screen is. Whether I use cu or minicom too many

Re: Console overrun with SPARC64 on Sun V210

2015-03-11 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2015-03-11, John Long wrote: > I just installed 5.6 on a Sun V210. The console doesn't seem to know how big > the terminal emulator screen is. Whether I use cu or minicom too many lines > are displayed. By default TERM is set to "sun", which is for an 80x34 Sun video console. If you connect

Re: Console overrun with SPARC64 on Sun V210

2015-03-11 Thread Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:05 AM, John Long wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed 5.6 on a Sun V210. The console doesn't seem to know how big > the terminal emulator screen is. Whether I use cu or minicom too many lines > are displayed. For example top loses all the lines until about the 4th task > li

Console overrun with SPARC64 on Sun V210

2015-03-11 Thread John Long
Hi, I just installed 5.6 on a Sun V210. The console doesn't seem to know how big the terminal emulator screen is. Whether I use cu or minicom too many lines are displayed. For example top loses all the lines until about the 4th task line. All the CPU, mem stuff etc. rolls off. vi is also unusable