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Date:      Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:18:53 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Current Users' list" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: Funny bug with VESA mode under syscons 
Message-ID:  <199810070319.MAA16554@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 21:23:13 %2B0200." <19981006212313.A27269@keltia.freenix.fr> 
References:  <19981006212313.A27269@keltia.freenix.fr> 

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Hi,

>I was compiling X11 on my new machine (3.0 BETA, pure ELF) using the

Which BETA is this?

>VESA_132x60 mode and the lines were scrolling down the screen when I
>noticed that the display slowly shifts.
[...]

In what other occasions does this "shift" happen?

>and it keeps on shifting. It is not the monitor because when I ^Z the
>process, the cursor return to col #0 then when I restart the process, a few 
>lines later, it will shift again.
>
>It doesn't seem TAB ligned, sometimes it shifts for 3 characters, then 7
>and so on.

Umm, so shift happens with random amount...

Would you possibly show me messages during boot when you start the
system with the -v option (at the "boot:" prompt)?

I would also like to see the output from:

	vidcontrol -i adapter
	vidcontrol -i mode

Kazu
yokota@FreeBSD.ORG

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