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To: Don Schmidt <yensid@imsa.edu>
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Subject: Re: Video problems w/ 2.2-RELEASE boot floppy 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:15:14 -0800
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>	I've been having problems with the 2.2-RELEASE boot floppy wreaking
>havok with my framebuffer; after the loader uncompresses the kernel (and
>runs it, I suppose) the characters on my screen turn a truely hideous shade
>of magenta mixed with garbage. (The 'newer' image turns it a slightly less
>frightening shade of orange) It appears that the kernel is running and 
>trying to display something, as small groups of lines will appear and dissappear
>at what seem to be appropriate times.  Both the 2.1.7 and 3.0 disks boot fine
>All three were written in the same way (dd'd from linux) The video card is a
>based on a Cirrus GD5430.  Any suggestions?

   Try setting flags 0x1 for npx0 (via -c at Boot:). There is a problem with
the optimized bcopy code and some VGA cards.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project