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From: jlu@cs.umr.edu (Eric Jui-Lin Lu)
Subject: Orchid F1280+ or KFC 15" monitor
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1993 06:45:39 GMT
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Hi *,

Recently, I purchased Orchid F1280+ and KFC 15" monitor.
They indeed gave me some excitement, but they also gave
me some problems.

1. scrolling problem when installing either FreeBSD 1.0R or
   NetBSD 0.9:  After inserting "filesystem" or "inst1" and
   enter, the hardware info is unreadable. It looks something
   like this:

   Usually, when the output is full of a screen, the next line will
   show up after all previous output lines scroll up one line. However,
   with F1280+ and KFC, the 1st 25 lines of output stay there
   and the following output lines scroll up in an overwrite manner.
   (tough to understand, right??)
   For example, suppose I have a monitor which is only capable of
   displaying one line.  And if I want to cat a file of two lines
   like:   1 2
            3 4.

   When I cat, the final output is '1234', instead of ' 3 4'.
   BTW, I can install without any problem by using the same
   monitor with Genoa 7900 (an ET4000 card).
  
2. strips filled in popup menu when using XFree86 2.0 + XS3 + 
   twm. When using xpmroot, the background display is, hmm,
   WRONG.  It's hard to describe.  But it looks like there
   are evenly-spaced strips all over the root window.

Does anyone in the net with Orchid F1280+ (801, ISA) and KFC
have similar problem??  If yes, please email.  If not, please
also email me and tell me your hardware configuration.
Thanks in advance!!


  --Eric

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