Subject: console video problems
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/25/1995 20:52:21
Were there an changes specific to the graphic card initialization
in both pccons and pcvt recently?

After updating to the most current I find that X displays only
a black screen and a cursor.  This is reminiscent of a problem
long ago when first supporting some of the video cards that have
hardware cursors.

I am also somewhat suspicious of the kernel size being the issue
and am in the process of compiling without some of the COMPAT
support enabled that I also decided to turn on for this compile.

I am particularly interested in the following change:

       Removed the bogus relocation hack for the i386 console buffer from
                locore, and instead have it done in the console driver.
                [mycroft 04/21/95]