getting the same behavior using the flags, which can be done inside of
UserConfig. (Also document other syscons flags which were previously
undocumented).
Requested by: bde
This allows the user to add modify syscons's configuration flags using
UserConfig that will allow older/quirky hardware (most notably older IBM
ThinkPad laptops) to work with the standard boot kernel.
Inspired by: The Nomads
TIMER_FREQ.
Fixed missing splx() in scrn_timer(). The bug was harmless because of the
undocumented behaviour that the ipl is automatically restored for timeout
functions (see softclock()). Perhaps we should depend on this behaviour.
Fixed the ddb fix in rev.1.176. The in_debugger flag was no use because
it only works when the debugger is entered via the keyboard hotkey. The
debugger may be entered for breakpoints and traps, and the console putc
routine has no way of knowing when it was, so the console putc routine
must (almost?) always remove the cursor image.
Not fixed: console switching in ddb doesn't work (ISTR it working), and
console 0 shouldn't be switched to for the debugger hotkey unless console
0 is /dev/console.
Fixed side effects from calling add_keyboard_randomness() in the console
getc routine by not calling it. add_keyboard_randomness() currently
always reenables interrupts on 386's and 486's. This is very bad if the
console getc routine is called from the debugger and the debugger was
entered with interrupts disabled.
Fixed preservation of initial screen and now-bogus comment about it. It
was broken by setting the initial scr_buf to `buffer' instead of Crtat.
`buffer' was full of nulls and the first scroll cleared everything above
the things written through syscons.
Submitted by: bruce (bde@freebsd.org)
bit (0x0008) in the sc driver configuration line. This way it's easy to
boink a generic kernel.
Also, document and place in an opt_ file the #define's for overriding which
serial port is the system console.
Approved by: sos
there is keyboard input.
The mousepointer is shown again immediately if moved.
Also a function pointer used to install a userwritten extra
ioctl handler (sc_user_ioctl). This way its is possible to
install user defined videomodes etc etc. No further changes
should be in the kernel.
instead of 0 if there is no input.
syscons.c:
Added missing spl locking in sccncheckc(). Return the same value as
sccngetc() would. It is wrong for sccngetc() to return non-ASCII, but
stripping the non-ASCII bits doesn't help.
and xdm, possibly in general.
What was happening was that the server was doing a tcsetattr(.. TCSADRAIN)
on the mouse fd after a write. Since /dev/sysmouse had a null t_oproc,
the drain failed with EIO. Somehow this spammed XFree86 (!@&^#%*& binary
release!!), and the driver was left in a bogus state (ie: switch_in_progress
permanently TRUE).
The simplest way out was to implement a dummy scmousestart() routine to
accept any characters from the tty system and toss them into the void.
It would probably be more correct to intercept scwrite()'s to the mouse
device, but that's executed for every single write to the screen.
Supplying a start routine to eat the characters is only executed for the
mouse port during startup/shutdown, so it should be faster.
This enables other consumers of the mouse, to get it info via
moused/syscons.
In order to use it run moused (from sysconfig), and then tell
your Xserver that it should use /dev/sysmouse (mknod sysmouse c 12 128)
and it a mousesystems mouse. Everybody will be happy then :)
Remember that moused still needs to know what kind of mouse you
have..
Comments welcome, as is test results...
(A pointer to a const was misused to avoid loading loading the same
value twice, but gcc does exactly the same optimization automatically.
It can see that the value hasn't changed.)
If you define this, it means your keyboard is actually probable using the
brain-dammaged probe routine in syscons, and if the keyboard is NOT found,
then you don't want syscons to activate itself further.
This makes life sane for those of us who use serial consoles most of the
time and want "the right thing" to happen when we plug a keyboard in.
during phk's staticize/cleanup commits. pstat needs it, the MAXCONS
option is not visible anywhere else, and pstat uses it to find the bounds
of the sccons[MAXCONS] array, which varies.
via an ioctl (MOUSE_ACTION).
Fixed a couple of bugs (destructive cursor, uncut, jitter).
Now applications can use the mouse via the MOUSE_MODE ioctl, its
possible to have a signal sent on mouseevents, makeing an event loop
in the application take over mouseevents.
Real support for a Textmode mousecursor, works by reprogramming the
charset. Together with this support for cut&paste in text mode.
To use it a userland daemon is needed (moused), which provides
the interface to the various mice protokols.
Bug fixes here and there, all known PR's closed by this update.
unreasonable time. I've got a PCI mainboard that simply doesn't grok
it, so continuing with a warning (and a keyboard that's working
nevertheless :) seems to be better than spin-looping forever.
getmajorbyname() which were a better (sigh) temporary interface to
the going-away devswitches.
Note that SYSINIT()s to initialize the devswitches would be fatal
in syscons.c and pcvt_drv.c (and are bogus elsewhere) because they
get called independently of whether the device is attached; thus
devices that share a major clobber each other's devswitch entries
until the last one wins.
conf.c:
Removed stale #includes and comments.
