*BSD News Article 97059


Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 12:22:46 -0600
From: brian@quote.com
Subject: characters "left behind" after carriage return
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a pentium pro 180MHZ (my video card is
a Diamond Stealth 2500 PCI, 1MB DRAM).  I have noticed that whenever I
type RETURN on the console, the line advances and occasionally leaves
random characters on the line above it.  Example:

Typing the following line:
        --------------------------------
        This is a line of text. <RETURN>


 ...might leave behind:
        --------------------------------
          i   s     n
        This is a line of text.


Sometimes space characters over-write other characters on previous lines.
After a while of this, reading any text on the console becomes confusing.

The problem is even worse with programs like vi that use termcap control.
Pressing Scroll Lock twice clears up any leftover characters on the
screen, but having to do this gets quite annoying after a while.  I have
spoken with one other person who has noticed the same effect, even on
remote terminals (using telnet to log on to his FreeBSD box from a
computer running Windows 95).  I do not know the exact version of FreeBSD
that he is using, but it is later than 2.0 (if thatis useful).

Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Brian O'Shea
brian@quote.com

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