Subject: Re: assembler warnings with 1.3_ALPHA
To: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/12/1997 14:20:46
On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 22:15:40 -0500 (EST)  maximum entropy wrote:

> >From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
> >
> >On Tue, 11 Nov 1997 21:59:36 +0100 (MET)  Thorsten Frueauf wrote:
> >
> >> I also see a small "white" (its the mono framebuffer of the DS3100) square
> >> in the middle of the console - it appears when booting a kernel, and disappears
> >> when halting the system - is there some kind of bug in the code or is this a
> >> hardware problem?
> >
> >Just a hunch, but it sorta sounds like a cursor.  I didn't think the
> >3100's had a hardware cursor though...
> 
> For what it's worth, the 2100 has the same problem.  If I remember
> correctly the little block goes away if you start X and then exit.
> But I don't have a 2100 handy to run netbsd on to double check
> that...

Not too surprising.  I think the only difference between a 2100 and a
3100 are the CPU clock speed crystal and the badge on the front...

Simon.