Re: Atari console corruption

Michael Schmitz
2011-01-31T01:46:53Z

Geert,
>>> $ printf 'abcd\10\10\33[@\n'
>>>
>> Doesn’t happen on the 2.6.32-5+m68k.5-atari I just built. Good news
>> too, video=atafb:vga2 is no longer needed either.
>>
>
> Are you sure? Nothing related to that got fixed. I'm still seeing it
> on 2.6.38-rc2.
>
You did include my ST-RAM pool reserve patch, that might have fixed
problems with video modes taking more than the minimum amount of RAM for
the screen buffer. Hence no need to stick to vga2.
> You must use an Atari interleaved bitplanes mode to see it, though.
>
There may well have been bugs in that code - I'm sure I have seen
incorrect overtype behavior with the sthigh mode myself. Not sure what
kernel version that happened on.

I'll give it a test on the emulator.

Cheers,

Michael