Hi,
I am moving back to BSD from few years of Windows usage. Reason are security issues mostly.
I've installed FreeBSD 10.1 on UEFI system, it forced me into newcons. After I almost did my setup I noticed, that I can't use the system to edit files from the console.
I am unable to use mouse for copy/paste as I was doing in VI before. It can copy and paste by middle button, but trouble is then few lines selected. In this case once inserted they getting all spaces up to the end of each selected line + some new line characters at the end.
So if selected text is:
After copying I am getting:
where <space> and <newline> are not visible of course, but are there.
On my other system that use BIOS boot and console is SC by default console copy/paste works just fine.
If I set kern.vty=sc output of the kernel disappear shortly after boot, so I can't use it with UEFI.
I've tried to switch my notebook to boot in BIOS instead of UEFI so that I can stay with sc(4) driver, however my notebook (Lenovo x220) doesn't support BIOS boot from GPT partition
Do I need to get in touch with newcons developers? What should be my next steps?
Thank you.
I am moving back to BSD from few years of Windows usage. Reason are security issues mostly.
I've installed FreeBSD 10.1 on UEFI system, it forced me into newcons. After I almost did my setup I noticed, that I can't use the system to edit files from the console.
I am unable to use mouse for copy/paste as I was doing in VI before. It can copy and paste by middle button, but trouble is then few lines selected. In this case once inserted they getting all spaces up to the end of each selected line + some new line characters at the end.
So if selected text is:
Code:
line01goeshere
line02goeshere
line03goeshere
Code:
line01goeshere<space><space><space><space><space><space><newline>
line02goeshere<space><space><space><space><space><space><newline>
line03goeshere<space><space><space><space><space><space><newline>
where <space> and <newline> are not visible of course, but are there.
On my other system that use BIOS boot and console is SC by default console copy/paste works just fine.
If I set kern.vty=sc output of the kernel disappear shortly after boot, so I can't use it with UEFI.
I've tried to switch my notebook to boot in BIOS instead of UEFI so that I can stay with sc(4) driver, however my notebook (Lenovo x220) doesn't support BIOS boot from GPT partition
Do I need to get in touch with newcons developers? What should be my next steps?
Thank you.