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Date:      Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:17:59 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        sobomax@altavista.net
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: Problem with syscons in VESA mode 
Message-ID:  <199912030018.JAA29566@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Dec 1999 13:50:31 %2B0200." <38465D07.8A25A0D@altavista.net> 
References:  <38465D07.8A25A0D@altavista.net> 

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>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. For example:
[...]

This strange behavior was reported several times in the past.  It must
be related to screen update logic in syscons. But, I don't think we
have successfully fixed it at that time :-(

It's time to analyze the problem again...

Kazu


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