Re: Problems with wsconsole

[Swift Griggs]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, co...@sdf.org wrote:

[...] the new graphical acceleration drivers.


Ohh, shiny! Is there any information about these new or newly improved 
drivers? Where did this code come from; is it a port from Linux or a 
NetBSD specific enhancement?


I'm just curious.

-Swift

Re: Problems with wsconsole

[coypu]

Hi,

The higher resolution is from the new graphical acceleration drivers.
An immediate quick fix would be to disable them.

on x86, you can disable it by dropping to boot prompt and typing
userconf disable i915drm*
userconf disable radeon*
boot

and then it would hopefully go back to being a 80x25 console.

(depending on your hardware, plus I might be wrong with the exact name)
If you like this you can add it to /boot.cfg

it's a hack, but it'll work right away.

Problems with wsconsole

[Hans dinsen-hansen]

I have updated my old rel. 5.1 to 7.1, and here the wsconsole
wites in a tiny script which I can hardly read because I am
partly blind.  I have <10% vision.

I have heard that it is possible to teach the ws-console a larger
script, but I cannot find the documentation.  My Xconsole is started
with large letters, but it would be nice to have large letter on
the ws-consoles.

My second problem is that I cannot see the ws-mouse cursor.  The
screen is black and it seems as if the cursor is black.  When I
move the mouse around the screen, it erases whatever there is where
(I guess that) the mouse is.

Copy-paste works, but I may get srange results, because the mouse
cursor is invisible.

I hope that somebody can help me.
   Hans Dinsen-Hansen.