Re: kern/39334: Console font characters disappearing in NetBSD-current

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/39334; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/39334: Console font characters disappearing in NetBSD-current
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:33:59 -0400

 tonnerre%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 >> Description:
 > On the console, characters are disappearing magically. All characters of the 
 > same value are disappearing at a time, and new characters of that type don't 
 > come back in later input.
 > 
 > As an example, if a "." disappears from the hostname, all "."s on the entire 
 > screen disappear at the same time. In later output of e.g. make, the dots 
 > are missing as well.
 > 
 > I might be mistaken about that one, but it seems that if output is scrolling 
 > through a lot, the process of disappearing is slowed down.
 > 
 > A video for the unbelieving can be found at 
 > http://tonnerre.users.bsdprojects.net/social/images/apps/bugs/console-font-disappearing.mov
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 > Switch to the console and wait some time.
 
 I have also noticed this behaviour from time to time after updating from 
 xf86-video-intel-2.1.1 to some 2.3.x or 2.4.0 release (can't remember now).
 
 Cheers,
 Jared