In article <Pine.NEB.4.44.0210311944540.10212-100000@sdf.lonestar.org>,
	poff@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG writes:
> I searched the list, and found a similar problem from someone having a
> black on black terminal...

There are multiple VGA drivers which don't save the state properly.

> Any ideas?

Try to build XFree86 4.2.1 from NetBSD's latest sources. Matthias Drochner
fixed this problem in several drivers.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/