Re: lilo vga=ask??

Charlie Ross (s253343@gettysburg.edu)
Mon, 24 Feb 1997 05:45:54 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Neptho wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Charlie Ross wrote:
>
> > BUT!!! wait! theres more! I may actually have a kernel bug/wierdness/odity
> > here...
> >
> > very last .7 of a line appears to be displaying a line in my scroll-back
> > buffer... I think it is the TOP line of the scroll-back buffer... although
> > I have not verified this for every case.. it might be somthing from a
> > completely different vt untill I fill my buffer...
> > but it is always there...
>
> Welcome to the world of S3 video cards. I suggest you get SVGATextMode,
> for it has a fixvidmode for this specific problem (cannot remember the
> name, havent used it since slack 2.3)...

But I havent got an S3... I'm using a cirrus logicUsing Cirrus Logic
GD542x/3x driver (5434, 1024K).

But just in case... where did you say theh
that utilityy was?

-Chuck

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