Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:24:51 +1000 From: Murray Baker <Murray_Baker@bigpond.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems & feedback Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980713142451.009668b0@mail.bigpond.com>
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1/ Length of PPP CHAT dial string. There is some length limitation on the CHAT dial string in PPP, maybe 200 chars? This is a bit too short for me to set up the string I want. I need, minimum, an extra 30 or so chars. Suggest increase length by say 100 or 200 to allow margins and provision for future. 2/ Corrupted text screen display. * I do not know whether this is a sw bug, hw problem, or hw/sw incompatability. It is also low priority. * I have observed corrupted text screen displays when running /stand/sysinstall. Screen display is corrupted in blocks of 2 adjacent characters. Sometimes this is minor, just 2 chars on the entire screen, and sometimes all over the screen. The correct chars+attributes will often appear up or down 12 lines from where they should be on the screen. Corrupted char pairs occurr shifted 6 chars to the right on subsequent screen lines. The problem was much more prevalent on ttyv3 (once enabled) and ttyv1 than ttyv2 and ttyv0. I have demonstrated the problem with 2 different PCI video cards, but have not seen it with an ISA videa card. I have seen, I think, a similar problem using ``ee'' editor occasionally. Seems that the problem only happens running sw that uses cursor positioning and attribute changes, and never happens with simple shell / command line display scrolling. I have never seen any corruption when the ``Daemon'' screensaver is running, and it runs *many* hours. Machine is a ``Servex TX531'' motherboard (low cost ACER) with IBM/Cyrix 6X86MXPR200 CPU, 16MB 72pin FP. The machine is absolutely reliable otherwise. Cheers, Murray. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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