Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 12:22:54 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Subject: Re: Problem with syscons in VESA mode Message-ID: <199912021722.MAA47364@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <3846A672.524B188A@altavista.net>
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On 02-Dec-99 Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Tony Finch wrote: > >> Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net> 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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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
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