(Thanks to Allan Small, Alan Rollow, Darryl Cook, Steve Jenkins, and Harinder Singh)
My original question:
> What terminal type should I set $TERM to for the console on an Alpha 1000
> 4/266?
>
> I just finished installing DU 3.2f. When I log in, it sets it to vt100
> (as does 'tset -'), but it's obviously wrong because man pages don't
> display correctly, the display frequently goes into inverse mode, and vi
> goes crazy and spits out an endless stream of ~ signs.
Here are two of the replies I received.
>From Allan Small <asmall_at_isu.usyd.edu.au>:
There is a good chance that the terminal size is wrong. You can check
this with % stty -a. The first line should look like the following:
#2 disc;speed 9600 baud; 24 rows; 80 columns
Most likely the number of rows is wrong. This will confuse utilities such
as vi or more. For example, vi will spit out too many (or not enough) ~'s.
To reset these values:
% stty rows 24
[This helped, but the display kept going into inverse mode and the cursor still became invisible alot]
>From Alan Rollow <alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com>
I'd try dw3. There isn't support for cursor positioning emulation
in the graphics drivers so the best you'll get is the equivalent
of a single line tty printer terminal. In this case a DECwriter III.
[ Argh. I would rather shoot myself than edit files in 'ex' ]
You'd be better trying to figure what graphics software you're
missing that is preventing the system from running an ordinary
X server. Some newer systems are using graphics subsystems
supported by the Open3D product, which doesn't ship with the
base system. That may be what you're missing.
At this point I called Digital support, who assured me that the system definitely is supposed to start
up in X-Windows mode as shipped from the factory. The rep echoed Alan Rollow's
recommendation that I get the thing running under X-Windows rather than struggle with the
termcaps, etc. So with his help I did, and now vi,nroff, more, etc. work great inside the DECterm
window.
I'm starting to digress, so I'll post a quick summary of what I did to get X working in the next
message.
Regards,
Derrick Miller
Received on Tue Aug 06 1996 - 05:03:52 NZST