From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 08:37:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12962 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:37:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12945 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:37:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hindarfjell.ifi.uio.no (2602@hindarfjell.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.130]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id RAA10907; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:36:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hindarfjell.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:36:30 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Ollivier Robert Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , "FreeBSD Current Users' list" Subject: Re: Funny bug with VESA mode under syscons References: <19981006212313.A27269@keltia.freenix.fr> <199810070319.MAA16554@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <19981007080115.A647@keltia.freenix.fr> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 07 Oct 1998 17:36:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: Ollivier Robert's message of "Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:01:15 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA12955 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ollivier Robert 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message