From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id XAA52215 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id XAA11055 for linux-list; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:47:51 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id XAA90911 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:47:49 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (sgi.sgi.com!rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id XAA22807 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:47:39 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from hub-fue by rachael.franken.de via rmail with uucp id for cthulhu.engr.sgi.com!linux; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:47:30 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Received: by hub-fue.franken.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #35) id m0z9OVG-002OnYC; Thu, 20 Aug 98 08:47 MET DST Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by alpha.franken.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA01020; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:44:51 +0200 Message-ID: <19980820084451.40712@alpha.franken.de> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:44:51 +0200 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de Cc: Alex deVries , SGI Linux Subject: Re: Merging for 2.1.116... References: <19980819233429.57253@alpha.franken.de> <19980820022818.D388@uni-koblenz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85 In-Reply-To: <19980820022818.D388@uni-koblenz.de>; from ralf@uni-koblenz.de on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:28:18AM +0200 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:28:18AM +0200, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote: > I've just finished merging and debugging .111. The new console code is > nice, Thomas. It accelerated the Indy console from Sun 3 style performance > to too fast to read performance. Things that I noticed thanks. > - bb is still broken when using aalib's Linux console driver I'll have a look at it. > - We seem to have an off by one error. The topmost scanline is also being > displayed at the bottom of the screen. upps, never noticed that. There is another known bug in the console. If you insert a character sometimes the character gets painted twice, one at the correct position, the other at the end of the line. > - The display as programmed by Linux is somewhat offseted from IRIX's. Bad > because one has to reduce the size of the display and still the display > will wander around when switching between operating systems. I had to do this, otherwise we lose speed. I haven't found a solution, yet. If I find one, we can also do other console resolutions. > - I broke the esp driver. how that ? I thought there were only changes, which are already in our tree (I guess your talking about NCR53C9x). Thomas. -- See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-) [Linus Torvalds in <4rikft$7g5@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI>]