From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 02:27:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA27556 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 02:27:43 -0800 Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA27550 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 02:27:31 -0800 Received: from crl11.crl.com by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA29371 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Sun, 26 Nov 1995 02:25:02 -0800 Received: by crl11.crl.com id AA11917 (5.65c/IDA-1.5); Sun, 26 Nov 1995 02:22:39 -0800 From: Mark Ng Message-Id: <199511261022.AA11917@crl11.crl.com> Subject: Re: syscons, fbsdboot, & SVGA notebook? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 02:22:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <199511241804.LAA09898@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 24, 95 11:04:18 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 935 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> 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