Subject: Problems with kernel compiled from supped source
To: NetBSD-arm32 <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 07/16/1998 13:34:43
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is just an arm32 issue, but the 1.3F kernel that I compiled
last night from sources supped yesterday has a few peculiarities :(

System is a RiscPC 600 ARM 610, lots of RAM etc, AKF60 monitor.

When booting. the coloured bars appear at the top of the screen, but the rest of
the screen does not go black until it scrools up: the background to text does
though.

When shutting down and returning to RiscOS, the display is seriously corrupted
and can not be used without resetting the machine. I did 'config' the kernel to
support the AKF60, so where is the problem and is there a solution?

Also, for most terminal choices in the current termcap, the colour capabilities
of the system seem to be ignored(don't know about X), 'pcansi' being the best of
the ones that do, and many of the text attributes are either not interpreted and
displayed as text or operate incorrectly. For example text that should be
blinking appears against a dark red background not blinking (this on a terminal
that ncurses tells me does not support colour :~/)

Other than that, the kernel works fine so far!

regards,
Dave

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