From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19350128150737.3378@smtp.wanadoo.fr> References: <3AA12536.DAF3B1A7@denise.shiny.it> <19350128150737.3378@smtp.wanadoo.fr> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:18:42 -0800 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Giuliano Pochini , From: "Timothy A. Seufert" Subject: Re: Console text selection bug Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: At 10:35 PM +0100 3/5/01, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >>When I select text in console it's scrambled. I looked at the >>aty128 sources, but I didn't find anything about it. Where is >>the code that manages selection/cut/paste ? >> >>The selected text is scrambled in this way: every char has >>the bits 1,2,3 swapped with bits 5,6,7 respectively (bits >>numbered left to right). I don't know what can cause this >>strange behaviour... I thought the console screen was a >>simple array of char/colour pairs. > >It's an endian bug in fbcon when accessing the text/attribute buffer. > >I think someone posted a fix for it, You may have more luck asking on >the fbdev mailing list to the fbdev maintainers what's up. > >I think it's related to fbcon_invert_region() not using the access >macros and directly tapping the buffer, causing attributes & text >to be messed up. I saw this problem in 2.4.x until I turned off the config option for VGA consoles. Then it went away. Tim Seufert ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/