From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 2 9: 4:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D8714C92 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:04:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Received: from vega.vega.com (dialup6-53.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.227.117]) by ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02208; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 19:07:50 +0200 (EET) Received: from altavista.net (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA07611; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 19:03:50 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Message-ID: <3846A672.524B188A@altavista.net> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 19:03:46 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Reply-To: sobomax@altavista.net Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Finch Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with syscons in VESA mode References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Finch wrote: > Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > >I'm using non-standard 100x37 console mode on my notebook, because in 80x25 > >text mode letters seems too big for my 12' panel, while other modes doesn't > >cover all panel size. So I've patched vidcontrol to switch to the VESA_800x600 > >100x37 mode (instead of default 80x25) with 8x16 font, and in most cases all > >works just fine (including ncurses and dialog bases apps), but sometimes when > >I'm building world or some other app text suddenly shifts from the edge of the > >screen by several spaces and all text passed to the console after that also > >being printed with that offset. > > I've seen this on -stable with standard large modes set by vidcontrol. It is interesting. Seems like it is not only VESA modes bug. Strange that nobody else observed this misbehaviour. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message