Garbled VGA text console

[Maxim M. Kazachek]

Perhaps problem with incorrect SC_MOUSE_CHAR option? I've seen strange 
behavious with GENERIC when user class is set to russian

    Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek
        mailto:stranger at sberbank.sibnet.ru


On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Brent Casavant wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Robert Faulds wrote:
>
>> Swap your mouse and keyboard. It appears you have them plugged in
>> backwards.
>
> Unfortunately that's not the case.  I even humored my imagination
> (i.e. maybe the chassis is mislabeled) and intentionally reversed them,
> to no avail.  As stated in the first message, a mouse isn't even
> necessary in order to observe this problem.
>
> Thinking it might be an SMP problem, I disabled all but one processor
> (kern.smp.maxcpus=1, kern.smp.active=0, kern.smp.disabled=1).  The
> garbled console continued.
>
> So I put that back, and thought to myself "Maybe it's picking up
> the wrong video card, somewhat".  Tried hint.vga.0.at="pci", to
> try to pick up the PCI VGA controller instead of the onboard one
> that appears on isa0, but that also had no effect.
>
> I'm not above looking into this myself.  Any idea whether it would
> be best to start my hunt in /usr/src/dev/fb/* as opposed to
> /usr/src/dev/syscons/* ?
>
> Thanks,
> Brent Casavant
>
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