On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Olly Betts wrote:
> A good point, but I still can't usefully boot into 800x600 because each
> individual character appears to have been "ROR #4"ed (if you think of them as
> bit images).  This makes it damn near impossible to read (I partitioned my disk
> with the display like this, but only managed it thanks to the very explicit
> readme file I'd printed out).
> 
> I also get the same with X: 640x480 works fine, but 800x600 gives the impression
> that each character cell has been rotated.  What gives?  Do I have a mutant
> VIDC20?  RPC 600, Eizo 9060 monitor.  I even tried putting the Eizo monitor def
> in /etc/monitor.conf but no change.  I can cope with a 640x480 console (just
> about) but X is a joke at that resolution.
> 
> Any cunning ideas?
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Me too!
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Haven't really used RiscBSD for a while for this and other reasons - but I
could never get it to boot in anything other than 640x480, and X never
seemed right in anything else either. (this was back around kernel
3895ish)

John Joyce