From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jan 2 12:30:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA08326 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:30:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA08318 Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199601022030.MAA08318@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: Thomas Graichen Subject: Re: kern/927: VGA mode not restored Reply-To: Thomas Graichen Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR kern/927; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Thomas Graichen To: gjb@ii.pw.edu.pl Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/927: VGA mode not restored Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 20:04:38 +0100 (MET) hasn't gjb@ii.pw.edu.pl said ? ... > > FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE syscons (sc0) VGA driver > Trident 8900 1MB RAM > Mono SVGA monitor > > >Description: > > With the hw. configuration as above (color VGA adaptor, mono > monitor) syscons driver does not always restore text mode correctly. > Bad console switching results in a blank screen, I didn't find > a way of restoring screen mode after this happens (must > reboot). > i have the same problem here - and some more info about it: * it is not depending on a special vga-board (tested with trident 8900cl and miro 10sd - s3 805) * it only apears if the monitor is detected as "mono" - mono-monitores detected as "color" work fine if anybody has a fix - i may try it out - maybe this helps - t _______________________________________________________||___________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de ___________________________||__________________graichen@FreeBSD.org_________