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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: VT 100
Date: 11 Apr 97 19:38:24 GMT
Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
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In <5ifvbg$a5t@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) writes:

>In article <01bc44be$71ed8dc0$0200007f@ois.orion.nl>,
>	"Orion Telematica" <v932492@si.hhs.nl> writes:
>> When I enable vt100 in my kernel, everything works fine. When have rebooted
>> a lot of keys combinations won't work anymore. Switching between console's
>> won't work . I get al kind of strange control characters. How can I solve
>> this problem?

>Switch back to syscons :)

This does not solve the problem.

Just read the documentation, its located in /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/Doc
there you should find every information you need to configure and use pcvt.

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe
    In their infinite wisdom, the folks at HP have decided that mere mortals
    such as you and I don't need to know what the kernel's proc structure looks
    like. (William LeFebvre, top 3.4 README, HP-UX 10.10)