From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 2 16:15:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619A914D89 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:15:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:dOeyIJ/Bb8H33TD9+vdAJ50mUNzhH2nI@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7Wpl2) with ESMTP id JAA17511; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 09:13:12 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id JAA29566; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 09:18:00 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199912030018.JAA29566@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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Dec 1999 13:50:31 +0200." <38465D07.8A25A0D@altavista.net> References: <38465D07.8A25A0D@altavista.net> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:17:59 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message