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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1403 comp.windows.x.i386unix:4648 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: Orchid F1280+ or KFC 15" monitor Date: 8 Nov 1993 05:52:00 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 54 Message-ID: <2bkmq0$imr@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <1993Nov7.064539.3586@umr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <1993Nov7.064539.3586@umr.edu> jlu@cs.umr.edu (Eric Jui-Lin Lu) writes: >Recently, I purchased Orchid F1280+ and KFC 15" monitor. >They indeed gave me some excitement, but they also gave >me some problems. I have an S3 928 board and a 17" KFC; KFC uses the same glass as NEC 4FG/5FG for your and my monitors respectively, with different electronics (better electronics, in my opinion). I "upgraded" a 4FG to a 17" KFC in the 30 day no cost upgrade period offered by my dealer, and was given money back. I am very very very happy with my KFC (the 928 board I have can actually push it to 1600x1280 using the overscan region). The 928 board is an Actix Ultra+ with 2M of memory. That aside: >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. The problem is in the scrolling code interacting with the Orchid F1280+ for text scrolling; the easy answer is rbuild your kernel with syscons instead of pccons, or vice versa. Another alternative is using a different card. I have noted the same problems on a Epson Laptop and on a Toshiba T1100 and TI Business Pro. >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. Has to do with mapping the memory and writing to it directly, while assuming a particular memory layout. I had the same problem; make sure you are using a recent XS3, or use the XS3 support in XFree86 2.0 (it's also Amancio's code, with minor changes). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.