Re: Console screen corruption?

["B. Estrade" <estrabd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:59:30PM +0100, Sascha Wildner wrote:
> walt schrieb:
> >I've installed dfly using the kvm/qemu emulator and I'm seeing
> >strange corruption of the console screen at times.
> 
> Does it happen randomly or when you do some specific thing? Did you 
> change the mode using vidcontrol(8) or does it happen with plain 80x25?
> 
> >Some lines of text will have every other character blacked out,
> >and some lines display perfectly.  Does this sound like some sort
> >of confusion between ascii and utf-8, perhaps?  That's the only
> >thing I can think of.
> 
> I don't think that's the cause.
> 
> >One notable clue is that dfly and freebsd are the only systems I
> >have this problem with. OpenBSD, NetBSD and linux work correctly,
> >so I'm hoping someone may know what code dfly and fbsd use that
> >would account for the problem.
> 
> Yeah, DragonFly and FreeBSD share much of their console code.

I had some console weirdness on FreeBSD once, and it turned out that I had some bad memory.

Brett

> 
> Sascha
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