Subject: Re: wscons scroll support
To: Paolo Losi <p.losi@lombardiacom.it>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/04/2001 09:21:46
Just tried this out, and it works really well, though I did find a
couple of small points:
a) Switching virtual consoles resets the scroll buffer
b) Scrolling up and down while the rc scripts are running
results in lost characters at the start of some lines
eg: " ounting all filesystems..."
c) http://www.pao.lombardiacom.it/scroll/ has 'sys/' missing
from /usr/src/sys/dev/ic/pcdisplayvar.h
Good work so far :)
David/absolute -- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Paolo Losi wrote:
> Hi again,
> I've finally cleaned up the code for wscons scroll support.
> You could find the latest patch always at
> http://www.pao.lombardiacom.it/scroll .
> There's also an open PR (kern/11874) as Manuel suggested.
> As far as the "look and feel" is concerned, the proposed solution
> is again the old one: Ctrl-Shift-PgUp/PgDown. Looking
> at wskbd.c code suggests that this is by far the easiest and cleanest
> solution (I would also add "consistent" to have at least a good reason
> :))
> Moreover the elections for the best solution gave the same result as
> the USA president elections :).
>
> I would really like to see wscons scroll support added to the NetBSD
> kernel
> so I'll be glad to modify, recode, rewrite this work in order to make it
> acceptable for inclusion.
> Thanks
> Paolo
>