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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 stray characters on console?
Date: 8 Jun 94 05:10:39 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2t28i2$6tf@spock.dis.cccd.edu> mpeer@cccd.edu (Michael Peer) writes:
>The question I have is I am getting stray characters on my screen, mostly
>% and ' characters. At times they even stay there, even though I scroll
>the screen. This is when I am not logged via the console. This is not a
>major problem, because I have another computer next to it, than I can get
>in via telnet, by the way on telnet, it never has any stray characters.
>clone CGA card
I'll bet you have a crappy CGA card that is doing this to you. Try
upgrading your video card and see if the characters go away.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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