Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] using fbdev

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

For those dying to know.

You have to open /dev/tty and send a do a

write(fd, "\33[25;1H", 7);

This clears the screen if the cursor is in the top row. 

> How do I make the the text contents of the console redraw at the end of
> a fb using program?
> 
> The following program works as expected (on PPC, aty128fb) - paints the
> top of the screen blue. When it exits the screen remains blue. A console
> switch to another VC and back clears the blue and draws the text that
> was there. What I want is to have this happen automatically at program's
> exit.