Subject: Re: Retina console problems
To: None <amiga-dev@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Andreas Johansson <ajo@ludd.luth.se>
List: amiga-dev
Date: 01/27/1995 01:39:12
According to Todd Masco:
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> In article <9501261034.AA09484@etmsun.etm.ericsson.se>,
> John Vrolijk <dsnjvro@etmsun.etm.ericsson.se> wrote:
> >This only happens on the console, not in X11
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> >Anyone else has this problem ?
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> I've seen similar problems on my console: I've got an A3000/30, 16/2MB,
> running release 1.0 and a Retina Z3, replaced Buster.  It comes up most
> often when I've been running emacs on console; once the corruption starts
> it continues until I reboot (a cp /netbsd /dev/reload is enough). 
> 
> The corruption is usually lots of garbage characters in the first ten or so
> columns, random ones flashing and highlighted.

I have seen this too, atleast with 1.0 beta. Don't really know if it went
away when I compiled -current. Anyway, it doesn't happen very frequent.

I have an A4000/40, 16Mb RAM and a Retina Z3.

It tends to happen more often if you write a lot to the console (cat a big
file) I think.
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