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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!netsys!pagesat!news.cerf.net!crash!fredbox!cyb!terminator!loodvrij From: loodvrij@cyb.cojones.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Problem with pk 0.2.4 with a "mono VGA" monitor Message-ID: <CAn4Ku.56p@cyb.cojones.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1993 23:14:39 GMT References: <CAIIK8.n4v@sugar.neosoft.com> Reply-To: loodvrij%cyb@fredbox.cts.com Organization: The museum of ancient wombats Lines: 26 In article <CAIIK8.n4v@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >I just got upgraded to pk 0.2.4 (had to get floppies... couldn't get a >sustained download of all those files), and I've found a problem somwhere >in the console handling. This happens with either pccons or codrv: after >the first time I run VI, all enhanced attributes (ESC [ 4 m, for example) >come out as solid white blocks. It looks like the display is getting reset >to color instead of mono. > >Any ideas? >-- >Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. > `-_-' Hefur pu fadmad ulfinn i dag? > 'U` >"Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge." I had exactly this problem with NetBSD. Except that the blocks were solid blue instead of white. It had me tearing my hair out I'm telling you, cos the only way to fix the problem was to power cycle the damn machine. I finally figured out it was the fact that I had accidently put a statement in my login files to set the TERM to vt100 for when I logged in remotely (I know there's better ways) with a test to see I the tty is /dev/vga. I messed up the test somehow and it was getting set when on the console. It would seem that the vt100 reset sequence was somehow responsible for the messed up video cos the problem went away when I took out the TERM stuff. Bruce