Console screen corruption?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:23:54AM -0800, walt wrote:
> Sascha Wildner wrote:
>> walt schrieb:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Sascha Wildner wrote:
>>>
>>>> walt schrieb:
>>>>> I've installed dfly using the kvm/qemu emulator and I'm seeing
>>>>> strange corruption of the console screen at times.
>
>
>> Hm, you can change to 80x50 with 'vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8.fnt 80x50'.
>> After trying 80x50, switch back to 80x25 with 'vidcontrol 80x25' and
>> check if the problem persists.
>
> No difference.
>
> I've taken this much time to respond because I keep confusing myself
> with experiments that don't seem consistent.  E.g. for awhile I thought
> that I saw the corruption only with csh and not with bash or ksh --
> but now I'm not so sure.
>
> In any case the only time I'm seeing the every-other-character turn
> blank now is when I'm scrolling back through my command history.
> Other than that, the problem is minimal after updating to CURRENT.
>
> But I've not tried any curses-based apps since the rebuild, and
> the screen corruption was especially bad while installing dfly
> using the installer.  I had to hit screen-refresh with each new
> curses screen because everything was completely illegible.

Could this be $TERM related?  Shot in the dark on my part.

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