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 > > -- > http://yoyodyne.ath.cx -- B. Estrade Louisiana Optical Network Initiative +1.225.578.1920 aim: bz743 :wq
