[systemd-devel] Question about 'vt100-nav' : unknown terminal type

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 28.12.10 00:31, Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) said: 
> > > vt100-nav|vt100 without advanced video option,
> > >         xmc#1,
> > >         blink@, bold@, rev@, rmso=\E[m, rmul@, sgr@, sgr0@, smso=\E[7m,
> > >         smul@, use=vt100,
> > > 
> > > so, no blink, no bold, no reverse video, standout is reverse video
> > > (which looks odd, if it doesn't support reverse video), no underline, no
> > > attribute modes, but otherwise a vt100.
> > 
> > Hmm, interesting. If this is the case it might indeed be an option to
> > switch to v100 by default.
> > 
> > Bill, do you remember why vt100-nav has been used on Fedora for this?
> > Would you oppose if we switch the default to vt100 everywhere?
> 
> We had them set to vt100, but had to switch to -nav (around 2004) because
> of some HVC devices on certain hardware which choked on just 'vt100'.

Hmm, do you think this might be fixed by now?

If so I'd be tempted to change the default to vt100 now, and wait until
it breaks again, and if that happens look for some solution. Would you
be opposed to that?

Lennart

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