Re[2]: [STATUS] fbdev api.

[Tobias Rittweiler <inkognito.anonym@uni.de>]

Hello Antonino,

Saturday, December 7, 2002, 12:55:34 AM, you wrote:

>> a) Although your patch fixes the FB oddness for me, it makes booting
>>    without using framebuffer fail, IOW the kernel hangs:
>> 
>>    Video mode to be used for restore is f00
>>    BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>>     BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
>> 
AD> Do you have framebuffer console enabled but with no framebuffer device
AD> enabled at boot time?  This will always fail with James' current patch.

AD> The diff I submitted in one of my replies in this thread (fbcon.diff)
AD> might fix that (not sure).

Thanks, that patches fixes it.


>> b) After returning from blanking mode (via APM) to normal mode, no
>>    character is drawn. Let's assume I'm using VIM when that happens:
>>    After putting any character to return from blank mode, the screen stays
>>    blanked apart from the cursor that _is_ shown. Now I'm able to move
>>    the cursor, and when the cursor encounters a character, this char
>>    is drawn (and keeps drawn). Though when I press Ctrl-L or when I go one line
>>    above to the current top-line (i.e. by forcing a redrawn), the
>>    whole screen is drawn properly.
>> 
AD> Can you try this?
AD> [..diff..]

Yes, it fixes the problem, thanks.


>> c) instruction:          | produces:
>>    ======================|==================
>>    1. typing abc def     | $ abc def
>>                          |          ^ (<- cursor)
>>    2. going three chars  | $ abc def
>>       ro the left        |       ^
>>    3. pressing backspace | $ abcddef
>>                          |      ^
>>    4. pressing enter     | -bash: abcdef: command not found
>>                          |

AD> I get this also. Seems to occur only with colored terms.  When I do 

AD> set TERM=vt100

AD> the problem disappears, so I thought this was an isolated case with my
AD> setup :-). Similar glitches happen also in emacs with syntax
AD> highlighting turned on.

Still there.


AD> Tony
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cheers,
 Tobias