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To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: Funny bug with VESA mode under syscons 
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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:18:53 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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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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