From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 02:05:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8FB216A4DA for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:05:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8F243D5C for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:05:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n15so1274328nfc for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:05:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FG9Gqco+XM42WxGMWUB6gB9ov4vo5rDVb+2ecGmTCOiZZf6BK4ndcfLY6JXO+MJApdxpq6cy1SBwoeL+Duu8+vhB8N8R4A4NURsz9M4+BnJDoRRmYW0HKk9Qu8M5kSAeLaFsd1fgMGblfu42CLNtI1gdSXyDP1bBg+KhovqQ8D8= Received: by 10.78.142.14 with SMTP id p14mr1370394hud; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.11 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 21:05:37 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Jeff Molofee" In-Reply-To: <44D2A2B5.6040500@cruzinternet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060803215556.A51AF16A4F3@hub.freebsd.org> <44D2A2B5.6040500@cruzinternet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vidcontrol X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:05:41 -0000 On 8/3/06, Jeff Molofee wrote: > I've noticed an odd problem when I set allscreens_flags="MODE_282". If I > set this in rc.conf, when I reboot my machine, the minute GDM comes up, > I can see black on the top half of my screen, overwriting everything > else on the screen. As I move the mouse, the black lines overwrite more > of the screen. I can also see a very tiny cursor moving in the black. > What this looks like to me, is that part of the console screen memory is > overwriting the screen. Is there a fix for this or is this a known > problem? If I disable the allscreens_flags in rc.conf, boot normally, > switch to a console CTLR_ALT-F1from within Gnome then run vidcontrol > MODE_282 then switch back everything is fine... no corruption. > Sounds like a problem with the video card.... anyhow... file a problem report: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/