From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 3 19:25:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA11380 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 19:25:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [198.7.0.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA11371 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 19:25:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (lsmarso@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.8.5/8.7/PanixU1.3) with SMTP id WAA16277; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:25:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:25:00 -0500 (EST) From: Larry Marso To: Don Schmidt cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video problems w/ 2.2-RELEASE boot floppy In-Reply-To: <199704040240.UAA23386@postoffice.imsa.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a Chips and Technologies video chip in a Chicony Chembook laptop. Recent boot floppies (and the resulting FreeBSD operating system) displays text in virtual terminals often with solid blocks of white and black (meaning blank characters) all over the screen. Any idea what's causing that? Paging up and down generally eliminates the problem for a time. On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Don Schmidt wrote: > > 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? > > > =============================================================================== > Don Schmidt Network Systems Administrator > yensid@imsa.edu Illinois Math and Science Academy > ----------You can build a Mainframe from the things you find at home!---------- >