Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 10:36:55 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: paradox@pegasus.rutgers.edu (Red Barchetta) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: dots over letters Message-ID: <199611180936.KAA27784@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961116183852.009158b0@pegasus.rutgers.edu> from Red Barchetta at "Nov 16, 96 06:38:58 pm"
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Red Barchetta writes: > This happened to the e's when I was installing 2.1.5R, the c's a few times > while I was running it (just suddenly, for no apparent reason), and just > today to the c's, d's, e's, n's, r's, and s's during my upgrade to 2.1.6. I'm not sure if I understand you correctly here, but I'm guessing you mean that the characters on a text (i.e. non-X) screen display start growing fungus. Is that correct? > After starting the session (i.e. during bootup and during the first few > minutes of regular opration), the characters print as normal to the screen. > Then at some point the dot's begin appearing, first over one char, then > another, etc. It seems pretty random, and I can't think of anything I > could have done to cause it. > > Has anyone seen this before, and can anyone explain it? It's driving me nuts! I've seen this (what I describe) on some versions of SCO. They weren't dots over the characters, they were sort of random spots and lines in particular characters. I'm pretty sure that it was a timing problem combined with an old display board (the board in question was an Orchid ProDesigner II, built about 1989, and running an ET3000 chip set). I just avoided running SCO with that board--other boards work fine. This is the first time I've heard about this happening under FreeBSD, and it's possible that I'm misinterpreting the symptoms. Please let me know if this is the case. > Other than that, I love the OS, by the way. Been running it since July... Glad to hear it. > Please cc me copy of any replies, as I don't subscribe to the list anymore > (way too high-volume!). Ah, think of all the pearls of wisdom you're missing! Greg
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