From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 2 13: 1:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2BD514EC7; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA13263; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:54:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA17379; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:01:03 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.9.3/8.9.2) id WAA30977; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:00:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:00:54 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: John Baldwin Cc: Maxim Sobolev , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Tony Finch Subject: Re: Problem with syscons in VESA mode Message-ID: <19991202220053.A30950@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <3846A672.524B188A@altavista.net> <199912021722.MAA47364@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199912021722.MAA47364@server.baldwin.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 12:22:54PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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. > Same here - just havn't found the time to check if it's maybe BIOS related (it's a rather old version on the card) or is already fixed in a newer current. It happens with current from July on a Millenium using 132x60. I don't know about other modes but I never saw this in plain mode. VESA: v2.0, 8192k memory, flags:0x0x1, mode table:0xc0bc0102 (0x1000022) VESA: Matrox Graphics Inc. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message