Subject: Re: strange console scrolling on SS10... what to fix?
To: User Nbsdbob NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/06/2001 21:53:53
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, User Nbsdbob NetBSD Bob wrote:

> I am tending to think it must be the frame buffer.  I pulled it and
> got it running fine on the VT100 tty, on 1.4.3, 1.5, and OpenBSD 2.8.
> I will peruse the junque box at home over the weekend and see if any
> more frame buffers pop up out of the bilges and see if they might work.
>
> I got a second SS10 machine for 30 bucks in todays dumpster diving surplus
> feeding frenzy, and loaded it up.  I will try my own frame buffers and
> monitors from the home stack and see if anything can be resolved.
> My expectation is that the framebuffer ist kaput.

	It may be kaput or just configured in a strange way. It would be
	nice if NetBSD could use it at least for a text console either
	way :)

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