>On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Grant Stockly wrote:
>
>> I'm working on setting up two workstations using two 21" fixed resolution
>> monitors.
>>
>> BSD so far boots up fine on the 21" 1152x870 (old Apple brand 13W3) but in
>> DT, it looks like this:
>>
>> Screen 1                                                         Screen 1
>> ***************************************************************
>>**************
>> ***************************************************************
>>**************
>
>Yes. The line buffers are too small.
>
>> Its not to size, but is there a fix somewhere for larger resolutions?
>
>The easiest work around is probably to use the larger font. (Command-F
>switches fonts.)
>
>> I havn't tried the 1024x768 monitor yet since I forgot the RasterOps card
>> at home for it.
>>
>> It appears that DT might work on the 1024x768 monitor (the boundaries look
>> like they would fit).
>
>Not quite. Even at 800x600, it comes up one character short.
>
>I looked at this some time ago. The foolproof fix, to introduce checks
>to wrap each line properly, has the potential to impact performance.

Have you tried that?

>Simply increasing the length of the buffers is dumb--how big do would
>they have to be to satisfy every case, and then how much memory would
>that waste on 640x480 monitors?

I'd be willing to waste the memory.  Is it just that easy?

>I've come to think that a decent
>solution would be to enter the resolution with a command line switch,
>with suitable defaults, or even better, to detect the resolution at
>start up and set the length of the buffers accordingly.

First we'd have to get the code working for long lines...

I'm willing to do some work on it.

Grant