Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:14:24 -0500
From: Jason Mitchell
To: Clay Daniels
Subject: Re: Basic vt100 console "noisy"
I wanted to share what Jason sent me privately:
"Clay,
The extra tty's are accessible by Control-Alt-F2 through F4 if they're
enabled (I
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, at 07:40, Rhialto wrote:
:
:
> If you have a serial terminal at hand, it is always fun to try. I
> operated a DEC Alpha with a serial console, even though it had display
> hardware.
I had a real Wyse terminal running in vt52 emulation mode as a console for a
number of years u
On Thu 21 Nov 2019 at 00:21:27 +, Clay Daniels wrote:
> Thanks so much Johnny & Olaf. The other consoles look promising. Does this
> relate to the NetBSD Guide Chap 3.9 Disk Prep process for selecting
> bootblocks?
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-exinst.html#exinst-disk-preparatio
On 2019-11-20 23:20, Rhialto wrote:
On Wed 20 Nov 2019 at 21:44:56 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
You might want to look at the syslogd configuration then? That might be one
source of messages being printed.
Furthermore, they are only printed to the first console. If you enable
more (ttyE[0-3]
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019, Rhialto wrote:
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:20:40 +0100
From: Rhialto
To: Johnny Billquist
Cc: Clay Daniels ,
netbsd-users , Scott Bennett
Subject: Re: Basic vt100 console "noisy"
On Wed 20 Nov 2019 at 21:44:56 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
You might want
On Wed 20 Nov 2019 at 21:44:56 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> You might want to look at the syslogd configuration then? That might be one
> source of messages being printed.
Furthermore, they are only printed to the first console. If you enable
more (ttyE[0-3] in /etc/ttys I think, and wscons=YE
On 2019-11-20 21:39, Clay Daniels wrote:
I'm having real trouble with my console window if I'm not running an X
window. There is constant system "chatter" about devices and such that
interupts what I'm trying to do. The worst problem is when I try to use
vi and it interupts me in mid-line. I re
I'm having real trouble with my console window if I'm not running an X
window. There is constant system "chatter" about devices and such that
interupts what I'm trying to do. The worst problem is when I try to use vi
and it interupts me in mid-line. I realize it may be my old machine, a
2014 HP
