From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Sep 7 01:05:11 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA19945 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 01:05:11 -0700 Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA19017 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 01:01:26 -0700 Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from julia.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.235) with smtp id ; Thu, 7 Sep 95 10:00 MEST Received: (from graichen@localhost) by julia.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA02218 for bugs@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 10:00:31 +0200 From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <199509070800.KAA02218@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de> Subject: console & mono-svga bug To: bugs@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 10:00:30 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1468 Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk hello there is a problem having todo with the console (syscons), X and monitores which are detected as VGA-Mono at bootup (is there anybody else using such things ? :-) - i verified the problem over 2 different monitores and 3 different graphic-cards - thus i think it's a generic problem: if i switch back from X to the console the console is completely black - i can blind type something and it works - that menas it is still functional but i think the text color is'nt restored correctly - because i've tested it with differend graphic-cards and thus xservers i think the problem is inside the console code - interesting is that it only appears with monitores detected as VGA-Mono - i also tried another VGA-monocrome monitor which was detected as VGA-Color (don't know why) and this one worked correctly - that's all - maybe someone may look into the code - if you have an idea send me the patches and i'll try if they work thanks in advance - t _______________________________________________________||_____________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| ___________________________||____email:graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de____