From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:03:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Josh Huber cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: gpm and XF401 (Re: ADB-Mouse) In-Reply-To: <20001023122716.D426@missioncriticallinux.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Josh Huber wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:00:02PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > You mean you mark some text at console with gpm and all you get in the > > selected area is garbage, even with a non psaux device? > > I tried it here on a chrp machine and got the same effect, could be a > > framebuffer bug. Anyone else with that problem? > > > > I have XF4 here with kernel 2.4 and no problems at all (fbdev driver). > > I have the same problem on a g4 (r128 fb driver) when using 2.4. > > I haven't had the time to look into it, but selecting text in console > mode is definately broken. It looks like it's somehow using the wrong > characters for the highlighted versions of the text. > > Anyone have any ideas, Perhaps it's exchanging the attribute byte with the character byte? Check out the scr_*() macros/functions. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/