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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 09:06:13 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Jun 1997 18:12:55 +1000."
             <199706130812.SAA25854@polya.blah.org> 
Subject: Re: i386/3857: bios screensaver screws up screen 
References: <199706130812.SAA25854@polya.blah.org> 

>Number:         3963
>Category:       junk
>Synopsis:       Re: i386/3857: bios screensaver screws up screen
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 26 17:10:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jul 5 20:30:21 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:  Thu Feb 26 18:46:26 PST 1998
>Originator:     
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: fenner 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 5 20:30:21 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
This was a misfiled followup to i386/3857.  I imported the 
relevant portion into i386/3857's Unformatted section. 
>Unformatted:
 >>Number:         3857
 >>Category:       i386
 >>Synopsis:       bios screensaver screws up screen
 >>Confidential:   yes
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       low
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 13 01:20:01 PDT 1997
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Ada T Lim
 >>Organization:
 >>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386
 >>Environment:
 >generic intel 486dx2-66
 >et4000w32p_rev_b - 2mb ram
 >12mb ram
 >>Description:
 >After screen enters screensaving mode (green) and then snapping back out again
 >,
 >the screen characters are all mucked up, as if something's overwritten the
 >fontmap.
 
 If this is caused by BIOS, we can do very little about it.
 
 Your BIOS may offer serveral ways to blank the display. How about
 trying alternate settings.
 
 Kazu
