On 11/09/15 11:50, Tati Chevron wrote: > 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.
It's not broken. It is stable :) I use it every day.I'm waiting for worldwide distribution of the pccon* terminfo entries :)) -- Alexei Malinin
