Re: ruby 2.6.9 still one thing...

[Aivils <ai...@un...>]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 16:19, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> With this:
> AGP = TNT2
> PCI = MX-440
> nvidia driver on both
> vesafb-tng patch for 2.6.9
> 
> I still get this:
> several vc's going. I go back to one of them with
> Ctrl+Alt+Fx and he has "forgotten" what was there and
> shows something else. When you enter a key it shows up
> someplace unexpected and you notice that the screen is
> not what you left it as.
> 
> Cannot tell exactly WHEN this happens. This is
> something that all my Bruby/Ruby versions have done.
> 
> Is it common?

Yep. Secondary X server "saves" VGA state and then
clean up. At least it happens with nvidia drivers.
You can check out phenomen under single xfree.

> Also the cursor on a vc disappears occasionally and I
> get it back with echo -e '\033[?86c' but that is a
> blob cursor and my usual one is an underline.
> 
> Cannot tell WHEN that happens.

First things are fisrt :) linux-ruby uses his own terminal
emulation code, which have seconadry importance and
stay in cvs as is (decvte.c) many years.
As You notify vc_screen.c will not work.

Aivils