From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Sep 7 14:51:13 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA11014 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 14:51:13 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA11008 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 14:51:09 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA14921; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:50:57 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA18912; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:50:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA09340; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:15:00 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509072115.XAA09340@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: console & mono-svga bug To: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:14:59 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199509070800.KAA02218@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Sep 7, 95 10:00:30 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 762 Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Thomas Graichen wrote: > > ... i think the problem is inside the > console code - interesting is that it only appears with monitores detected as > VGA-Mono - i also tried another VGA-monocrome monitor which was detected as > VGA-Color (don't know why) and this one worked correctly - that's all - maybe > someone may look into the code - if you have an idea send me the patches and > i'll try if they work VGA Mono is internally handled like MDA, i.e. the frame buffer is located at a different address than VGA color. It would be interesting to know (at least for me :) whether pcvt will also fail. I hope not. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)