Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Fri Oct 7 11:02:28 UTC 2011


* Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net>, 20110926 02:52:
> 1) The jove editor worked strangely because, in /etc/ttys, the
> terminal type was set to "xterm" instead of "cons25" by default. (I
> do not run a GUI on servers, so of course there will not be an
> xterm.) As a result, parts of lines kept vanishing from under my
> cursor. However, even after I modified /etc/ttys, I still saw some
> screen artifacts. The maintainer of the console driver should
> probably check it to see whether its termcap entry needs changing.

It should be xterm, since syscons now uses an xterm-style terminal
emulator. I have never used jove before, so what should I do to
reproduce this?

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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