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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: Bug in console driver..Bold is flashing blue Message-ID: <jmonroyCJB6wB.DL3@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <2gi54sINNhpa@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 1994 11:36:10 GMT Lines: 35 James Michael Chacon (jmc@matt.ksu.ksu.edu) wrote: : I recently installed NetBSD-0.9 on my 486, and everything works fine for me. : The only problem's I have really been having are what I see are bugs in the : console driver somewhere. : By default the screen size gets set to 24 lines. Using TERM=pc3, means when I : vi a file I can't scroll correctly, because the bottom line just overwrites : instead of scrolling. If I reset to 25 lines, it all works fine however. : Also, bold doesn't show up as bold, it shows up as a flasing blue...YUCK... : Thats very hard on my eyes with a black background, and doesn't look good : anyways, since it is flashing. : What you might be experiencing may not be a bug of the system. What you might be experiencing is a bug in your video card. Some video cards don't initialize correctly. How this comes about I don't know (maybe someone else has the answer). To see if it is indeed your video card... try the video setting in DOS.... However, this may not be conclusive, but if you get the same problem with DOS you can most probable say yes.. the card is the problem. : Anyone have any suggestions on how to at least fix the bold problem? : If it is a hardware problem you may be able to fix it by rerunning the init() part of the video driver. -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________