Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:17:59 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: sobomax@altavista.net Cc: current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Problem with syscons in VESA mode Message-ID: <199912030018.JAA29566@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Dec 1999 13:50:31 %2B0200." <38465D07.8A25A0D@altavista.net> References: <38465D07.8A25A0D@altavista.net>
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>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. For example: [...] This strange behavior was reported several times in the past. It must be related to screen update logic in syscons. But, I don't think we have successfully fixed it at that time :-( It's time to analyze the problem again... Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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