Re: [9fans] aux/vga

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

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i'd worked out how to deal with some of these problems, but didn't
finish it off. i'll try to get back to it this week.

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From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] aux/vga
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:00:31 -0600 (MDT)
Message-ID: <20020630135826.T37003-100000@fbsd.acl.lanl.gov>

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Richard Miller wrote:

> 1. After rebooting with Ctrl-Alt-Delete or ^t^tr, the cga display comes
> up (usually but not every time) with "doubled" characters -- i.e. instead of
>   PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> it says
>   PPSS..PPaa    rrmmBBll  aass
> and so on.  If you type on the keyboard, only every second character is
> echoed (twice).
>

this seems to be general for all t21 and t23's i've seen... happens under freebsd also..


> 2. In vga mode, if you close and reopen the cover, the display is replicated
> three times horizontally across the screen.
>

has happened only once under frreebsd (t21), not observed under p9...

our solution to 1) is to power down on reboot and close the screen rarely..

andrey