From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 18:02:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA14083 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:02:24 -0700 Received: from system1.indecent.com (root@system1.indecent.com [204.95.227.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA14077 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:02:21 -0700 Received: (from partek@localhost) by system1.indecent.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA10592; Mon, 11 Sep 1995 20:01:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 20:01:00 -0500 (EST) From: David Anderson To: Terry Lambert cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cons25 and vt100 In-Reply-To: <199509111712.KAA18597@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Sep 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I tried that.. There were some problems.. > > Local console: > > 1- All stuff that was supposed to be bold, was blue. > 8-). Direct mapping of the mono attribute bits to the CGA attribute > values. > What's "bold" on a color screen? Trick question? > > 2- The screen would constanly become garbled. I would be typing something > > at the commandline and suddenly the cursor would just jump to the > > other side of the screen. > > What video card do you have; sounds like a non-linear VGA memory map? I have a Cirrus Logic 5426/8(clgd5428) and that's what pcvt reports on bootup. > > 3- When the system boots up, everything is white on a red background. Not > > necessarily a problem, but it looks strange. > Another attribute mapping. > I'd say PCVT was under the impression that your card was a mono card; does > it emulate one? This could cause it to mis-probe the card. You may want > to look at the dmesg output for boot and see what probe messages it puts > out to you. Then contact the author for advice. And who is that? :) A friend of mine is also running FreeBSD. He's having the same exact problems with PCVT.(though has a different video card) Is this really a problem, or is it just how it's SUPPOSED to act? Thanks, Dave +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Anderson | Partek on IRC | partek@indecent.com | partek@youth.org | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "We do not have to resign our vision to what 'the world is really like'. | | The roles of our past do not have to be the blueprint for our future. No | | fear. No hate. No limits. Anything is possible." - Unknown | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+