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Date:      07 Oct 1998 17:36:29 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, "FreeBSD Current Users' list" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Funny bug with VESA mode under syscons
Message-ID:  <xzpu31ge64i.fsf@hindarfjell.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Ollivier Robert's message of "Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:01:15 %2B0200"
References:  <19981006212313.A27269@keltia.freenix.fr> <199810070319.MAA16554@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <19981007080115.A647@keltia.freenix.fr>

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Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> writes:
> It is probably not random. It is difficult to see when exactly but if it
> was a printer, I'd say that sometimes it prints only a LF and not CR+LF.
> 
> It prints a few lines then decides to start the next one on the same column
> the previous one was stopping.

Staircase effect. Probably a buggy BIOS. Should we try to work around
it in syscons?

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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