From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 10:07:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA10472 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:07:12 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA10460 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:07:07 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA09898; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 11:04:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199511241804.LAA09898@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: syscons, fbsdboot, & SVGA notebook? To: mng@crl.com (Mark Ng) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 11:04:18 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511240214.AA27638@crl11.crl.com> from "Mark Ng" at Nov 23, 95 06:14:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1193 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I'm trying to get XFree86 running on an IBM Thinkpad > 755CX notebook in 800x600 LCD mode but having a problem > with text output to the console getting messed up. [ ... ] > FreeBSD using "fbsdboot -r." But while booting all > text lines from the copyright message onward look > like they're printed on the same line (with one or > more spaces where you'd expect newlines and it seems > like an increasing number of spaces as more lines > are printed) until they get to the right edge of > the screen, when they break to the next line. > > I login and start X anyway and it works OK. The screen > appears more or less properly restored after exiting > X ("vidcontrol VGA_80x30" after login also does same). The console has 30 lines. It believes that it has scrolled when it goes to the 26th and believes the cursor has been repositioned to the 25th line and keeps going. The way to fix it is to get the hardware to respond correctly to the probe for number of lines. 8-). Barring that, you can hack the console seorce code to tell it 30 lines. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.