Re: Reasons for keeping sc(4) and libvgl ?

On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 20:06:13 +0100
Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com> wrote:

> I encountered some other bugs in vt while I used it.
> 
> Aside of the computers I am using for testing of my installer, I use
> vt only in the time from installation of computers to when I get time
> to configure/build a new kernel to remove vesa (and vt because it
> pulls in vesa,ko) from the kernel to make suspend/resume work. So I
> feel usually in some hurry when I want to get a system up and
> running..
> 
> And then I am not in the mood to bother spending time making vt bug reports.
> Maybe a reason that many of these bugs are not reported is that I love
> to use mouse mark/paste in the console, and most of the bugs are
> related to this. No idea how common it is to use mice in console mode;
> if it is not common this might be why these bugs are apparently
> under-reported.

 If you don't report the bugs don't expect them to be fixed ...

> Almost all my computers still have CSM support, so I use that, as I do
> not use Microsoft OSes.
>
> When time comes and I have to buy computers that do no longer support
> CSM, I'll look into the sc source to add a VGA BIOS interrupt call to
> change from UEFI graphics to text mode at initialization time.
> This should be sufficient to support sc on UEFI machines.
> Actually I do not understand why this has not yet been done.

 Because it's not possible ?

> Do you think such a patch to make sc work on UEFI systems would be
> accepted into FreeBSD?
> 
> 
> On 11/26/21, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 10:45, Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> - vt is so horridly buggy that it is no fun to use it at all if one is
> >> accustomed to well-working, bugfree sc(4). Just one example:
> >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211922
> >
> > This issue is waiting on feedback since 2021-09-25. There is one issue
> > that's still reproducible when I last tested, but "horridly buggy" is
> > quite a stretch.
> >
> 


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