Re: Bad video output on RiscPC

Ben Harris <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:10:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.acorn32
Organization Linux Unlimited
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>
I write:
>I've done a few experiments.  The problem manifests more severely with 
>VRAM installed than removed.  In the no-VRAM case the bottom line of the 
>screen doesn't update, but everything else is fine.  With and without 
>VRAM, vidcvideo(4) is using the same video mode.  In both cases, my 
>keyboard seems not to respond at the "root device" prompt, but caps lock 
>toggles correctly, and I can break into DDB wherethe keyboard works 
>correctly.  This is all rather mystifying.

The keyboard problem turned out to be an entirely different bug in 
iomdkbc(4), which I've fixed separately.

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Ben Harris