Gandhi woulda smacked you skrev:
> 
> On Wed, 5 May 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> #
> # Hi,
> # I'm the happy (? :) owner of an IPX since yesterday evening. I installed
> 
> Welcome to the IPXBSD club!
> 
> # the 1.4_BETA snapshot on it and noticed a strance thing with the console
> # framebuffer:
> # 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.
> 
> It's a known condition.  Mine's been doing it since day one.

I've changed my terminal type for the console to sun-ss5 in /etc/ttys
and it works like a charm, well almost.

/magnus