Re: xsrc/54113: xdm edit fields broken

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR xsrc/54113; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: xsrc/54113: xdm edit fields broken
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:34:40 -0500 (CDT)

 On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, John D. Baker wrote:
 
 > For the trifecta I'll see about trying a known-working nouveau-equipped
 
 The nouveau-equipped machine shows the same shifted cursor/font with
 glitched borders and leftover character bits.
 
 For completeness, on a machine using the intel DRM/KMS driver with a
 real i82915 device, the downward shift seems less pronounced than on
 the other systems, but it's still there and still glitches, although
 less so.
 
 > machine as well as other machines which use non-DRM/KMS video (old
 > radeon, rage128, via, SiS, etc.).
 
 A system with a VIA chipset and using "viadrmums* at drm?" also shows
 the corruption/glitching.  Additionally, upon aborting 'xdm' with <ctrl-R>
 (takes 4 presses) and returning to the regular VGA text console, the
 contrast is reduced.  The background seems a little brighter and
 the text noticably dimmer.
 
 A system with an XGI Volari Z7, with "sisdrm* at drm?" in the kernel
 ("sis" xorg driver) likewise displays the corruption/glitching.  Rebooting
 with GENERIC (i.e., w/o the "sisdrm" driver) made no difference.
 
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