Subject: Re: strange console scrolls
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/05/1999 15:23:07
> when exiting vi (and I've seen this with the install script too), the display
> scrolls back for a few seconds a lot of garbage. There is garbage in the
> non-text portion of the screen as well (this place which is left with the
> grey X root when you hit stop-A while running X and scrolls some lines).
> Typing 'clear' gives me back a clean white screen. And yes, I have
> TERM=sun in my environement.

This is caused by a formware bug (either on the cgsix board or in the
prom's terminal emulation code, I forgot which).

A work-around is present in our termcap db: set TERM to `sun-ss5'.

-pk