davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (05/19/88)
Having gotten vpix running, I still have a few problems. The first is
the fonts. When the vpix kernel is booted it uses a normal EGA font.
After running vpix (the program) I get an ugly san serif font instead.
I also get some weird changes on the virtual terminals. When logging
off one, it switches to another, usually an active login or the
/dev/console. I can live with this, but it's not right.
I had one hard crash (I'm not sure it was vpix related) and had to
rebuild my filesystems quite a bit. Thank God for backups.
If anyone has a really good solution for either of these problems, I'd
like to hear it.
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bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -medyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (05/21/88)
In article <10910@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes: > Having gotten vpix running, I still have a few problems. The first is > the fonts. When the vpix kernel is booted it uses a normal EGA font. > After running vpix (the program) I get an ugly san serif font instead. Yeah, I've seen this too. The EGA doesn't seem very "insulated" from vpix's virtual windows when switching back. > I also get some weird changes on the virtual terminals. When logging > off one, it switches to another, usually an active login or the > /dev/console. I can live with this, but it's not right. This is documented as a temporary "bug" (it ties into the mechanism vpix uses upon exit or a subshell to switch from its DOS window back to the window you ran vpix from.) It claims to be fixed in a later release, which is fine with me. This is the definition of a "controlled release". The utility of having vpix seems worth a few glitches. -- Steve Dyer dyer@harvard.harvard.edu dyer@spdcc.COM aka {ihnp4,harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyer