strange console behavior in 2.4

strange console behavior in 2.4

[Josh Huber]

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I've been playing with 2.4 on my G4, and everything's working great,
except for text selection in console mode.

If I use gpm to select text in console mode it's almost as if a
completely different (and very wrong) character map is being used.
The characters that have been selected not only invert color, but they
change to different ones.  Most of them look like high ascii chars,
like smilely faces etc.

Anyone else seeing this?  A 2.2 kernel on the same system works great.

btw, I'm running debian potato.
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Josh
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Re: strange console behavior in 2.4

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Josh Huber wrote:
> I've been playing with 2.4 on my G4, and everything's working great,
> except for text selection in console mode.
>
> If I use gpm to select text in console mode it's almost as if a
> completely different (and very wrong) character map is being used.
> The characters that have been selected not only invert color, but they
> change to different ones.  Most of them look like high ascii chars,
> like smilely faces etc.

The shadow screen contains 2 bytes for each character cell, one containing the
character code and one containing the attribute.  Does it look like the
attributes and characters got exchanged?

If yes, look for changes in the various scr_{read,write}() functions and in
drivers/char/vc_screen.c.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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