Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:10:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Red Barchetta <paradox@pegasus.rutgers.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dots over letters Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961117220836.8140I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961116183852.009158b0@pegasus.rutgers.edu>
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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Red Barchetta wrote: > This happened to the e's when I was installing 2.1.5R, the c's a few times > while I was running it (just suddenly, for no apparent reason), and just > today to the c's, d's, e's, n's, r's, and s's during my upgrade to 2.1.6. > > After starting the session (i.e. during bootup and during the first few > minutes of regular opration), the characters print as normal to the screen. > Then at some point the dot's begin appearing, first over one char, then > another, etc. It seems pretty random, and I can't think of anything I > could have done to cause it. > > Has anyone seen this before, and can anyone explain it? It's driving me nuts! I haven't seen anything like this myself. It appears that your video fonts are becoming corrupted though. You might check your video RAM if you can (My Mach64 has the capabiility I believe)or try another video card. There is a way to reload the fonts through vidcontrol(1), but I haven't used that option. Check the mail archives on http://www.freebsd.org just in case. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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