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Re: looking for testers of new console



Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> Note that you should redirect /dev/console then.  Try Roland's new fsysopts
> for term to do that.
>  
>> I tried   adding export TERM=mach-color  but it  failed still and then
>> started the default console.
>
> Do you talk about the ncursesw client?  I am not sure that would work.

Actually it  works with the old  console-ncurses and with  the current
console client code.

If you quit it you get dumped into a single user shell.

--- /libexec/runsystem.gnu	Sun Aug  4 20:57:11 2002
+++ /libexec/runsystem	Thu Sep 19 23:02:57 2002
@@ -130,9 +130,10 @@
   # This program reads /etc/ttys and starts the programs it says to.
   ${RUNTTYS} &
   runttys_pid=$!
-
+  export TERM=mach-color
+  console -D /lib/hurd/console -d vga -d pc_kbd -d generic_speaker /dev/vcs
   # Wait for runttys to die, meanwhile handling trapped signals.
-  wait
+#  wait
 
   # Go back to the top of the infinite loop, as if booting single-user.
   rc=false

-- 
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