On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:23:54AM -0800, walt wrote: > Sascha Wildner wrote: >> walt schrieb: >>> >>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, 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. > > >> Hm, you can change to 80x50 with 'vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8.fnt 80x50'. >> After trying 80x50, switch back to 80x25 with 'vidcontrol 80x25' and >> check if the problem persists. > > No difference. > > I've taken this much time to respond because I keep confusing myself > with experiments that don't seem consistent. E.g. for awhile I thought > that I saw the corruption only with csh and not with bash or ksh -- > but now I'm not so sure. > > In any case the only time I'm seeing the every-other-character turn > blank now is when I'm scrolling back through my command history. > Other than that, the problem is minimal after updating to CURRENT. > > But I've not tried any curses-based apps since the rebuild, and > the screen corruption was especially bad while installing dfly > using the installer. I had to hit screen-refresh with each new > curses screen because everything was completely illegible.
Could this be $TERM related? Shot in the dark on my part. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
