On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:23:08AM +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 09:01:52PM +0000, Tati Chevron wrote:
Is there any reason why the OpenBSD installer still defaults to a
terminal type of vt-220 for the VGA framebuffer console, and doesn't
even suggest pccon as an alternative?
In the installer itself? vt220 works fine and reliably and - importantly
- is small and fits on the ramdisks. Who needs to press F13 in the
installer?
Agreed, I didn't mean the installer itself, that does work fine with vt220.
If you mean in /etc/ttys, this has been discussed before and mostly the
reason it has stayed is that terminfo entries propagate very slowly and
vt220 is available everywhere, no matter if the user ssh to some ancient
OS. It's easy to change anyway.
Ah, then this is a documentation issue - I always assumed that the terminal
type specified in the installer was propogated to /etc/ttys during the install,
and used as a default for the console.
It is indeed easy to change, but the existance of pccon isn't exactly widely
documented. To be honest, I knew about it, but seeing that it was broken and
not used by default in the installer, nor on the console after installation, I
assumed that it was abandoned and unmaintained.
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Tati Chevron
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