From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antonino Daplas Subject: Re: [2.5.42] screen corruption with vesafb Date: 15 Oct 2002 02:47:45 +0800 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1034621170.570.54.camel@daplas> References: <874rbqzerv.fsf@gswi1164.jochen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [203.167.79.9] (helo=willow.compass.com.ph) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 181AIy-00064i-00 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:51:04 -0700 In-Reply-To: <874rbqzerv.fsf@gswi1164.jochen.org> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf