Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 02:22:39 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Ng <mng@crl.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syscons, fbsdboot, & SVGA notebook? Message-ID: <199511261022.AA11917@crl11.crl.com> In-Reply-To: <199511241804.LAA09898@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 24, 95 11:04:18 am
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>> I'm trying to get XFree86 running on an IBM Thinkpad >> 755CX notebook in 800x600 LCD mode but having a problem >> with text output to the console getting messed up. >[ ... ] >> FreeBSD using "fbsdboot -r." But while booting all >> text lines from the copyright message onward look >> like they're printed on the same line (with one or >>[...] > >The console has 30 lines. It believes that it has scrolled when it >goes to the 26th and believes the cursor has been repositioned to the >25th line and keeps going. > >The way to fix it is to get the hardware to respond correctly to >the probe for number of lines. 8-). > >Barring that, you can hack the console seorce code to tell it 30 >lines. > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Thanks. It turns out running ps2 mode3x puts it into an 100x37 text mode. Changing the console source code to tell it 100x37 corrected the line breaks and scrolling. -- Mark Ng mng@crl.com
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