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-left
corner, 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 configured
and 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)