From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jul 12 21:51:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09288 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:51:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from teapot06.domain1.bigpond.com (teapot06.bigpond.com [139.134.5.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA09256 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 21:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Murray_Baker@bigpond.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teapot06.domain1.bigpond.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ua612866 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:05:28 +1100 Received: from SY-A22-pool-220.tmns.net.au ([139.134.96.220]) by mail1.bigpond.com (Claudes-Sleepy-MailRouter V1.3); 13 Jul 1998 14:05:28 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980713142451.009668b0@mail.bigpond.com> X-Sender: Murray_Baker@mail.bigpond.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:24:51 +1000 To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Murray Baker Subject: Problems & feedback Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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