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* Re: [2.5.42] screen corruption with vesafb
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@ 2002-10-14 18:47 ` Antonino Daplas
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From: Antonino Daplas @ 2002-10-14 18:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jochen Hein; +Cc: fbdev

On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 20:47, Jochen Hein wrote: 
> 
> When running Emacs on a framebuffer console and inserting characters
> in the middle of a line, the character after the cursor get corrupted
> in two of three tries.  A redraw (Ctrl-L) fixes it, so I suspect a
> framebuffer bug.  I can provide a screenshot if there is a need.
> 
I experienced similar problems before.  In my case, this was due to
problems with cfbfillrect.c and cfbcopyarea.c.  

Geert wrote similar routines in the CVS version of fbtest.  I modified
them so they can be used as drop-in replacements for the kernel
framebuffer.  See the thread "Console Rotation" last month. 

Tony



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