From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 2 9:23:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A9A14CA6 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:23:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA47364; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 12:22:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <199912021722.MAA47364@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3846A672.524B188A@altavista.net> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 12:22:54 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Maxim Sobolev Subject: Re: Problem with syscons in VESA mode Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Tony Finch Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Dec-99 Maxim Sobolev wrote: > 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 I have seen it in 132 x anything on both -stable and -current but just haven't been bothered enough by it to complain. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message