From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 10 8:10:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from news.uni-kl.de (news.uni-kl.de [131.246.137.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B56137B60F; Wed, 10 May 2000 08:10:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de) Received: from sushi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de ( root@sushi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de [131.246.89.13] ) by news.uni-kl.de id aa12339 ; 10 May 2000 17:10 MESZ Received: from gnocchi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de (gnocchi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de [131.246.89.12]) by sushi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA07395; Wed, 10 May 2000 17:10:23 +0200 Received: (from naddy@localhost) by gnocchi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA02053; Wed, 10 May 2000 17:10:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from naddy) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 17:10:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Weisgerber Message-Id: <200005101510.RAA02053@gnocchi.unix-ag.uni-kl.de> To: jhb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sio, nrc and sym questions for NoName X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd.alpha In-Reply-To: <200005101220.IAA06502@server.baldwin.cx> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D74C9@l04.research.kpn.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin wrote: > > sysinstall background is red, but it is my understanding that that's a > > feature. > > Actually, this is due to SRM messing up the colors in the palette. That was my first thought too, but in that case why does the FBIO_GETPALETTE ioctl() return the same palette entries on i386 and alpha? Another cosmetic console issue: Setting a "destructive" cursor with vidcontrol(1) gives a blinking underline on i386, but a blinking block on alpha. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@unix-ag.uni-kl.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message