Re: setedit and elinks

[Salvador E. T. <sal...@in...>]

On 26/08/06 13:11, Witold Filipczyk wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:37:52PM -0300, Salvador Eduardo Tropea wrote:
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>>On 19/08/06 22:38, Rohan Carly wrote:
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>>>Witold Filipczyk wrote:
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>>>>Another bug is a tvision bug. I use ATI framebuffer and
>>>>cursor leaves trace. It's annoying.
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>>>I also had that problem using framebuffer, not sure if it was the ATI 
>>>one or not. From memory (it was a while ago) I found that if I deleted 
>>>/dev/vcs* (or maybe I just changed the permissions on those files- try 
>>>removing write access, or maybe read access) then the problem went away.
>>>
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>>The UseVCS=0 solution is more elegant for such a problem.
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>I'm afraid that bytes 2 and 3 in /dev/vcsa? are read only properties for
>framebuffers.
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Nope, they work (the cursor is moved), so they aren't read only.

>This patch fixes the trace on the framebuffer
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That's a workaround and degradates the speed for non-framebuffer cases 
(or well implemented frame buffers).
Do you know how to detect if the console is using framebuffer?

This patch isn't a good solution, but I could add an option to enable 
such a workaround.

SET

>--- tvision/classes/linux/linuxdis.cc.old       2006-08-26
>17:28:08.264522736 +0200
>+++ tvision/classes/linux/linuxdis.cc   2006-08-26 18:02:59.305636168
>+0200
>@@ -75,11 +75,11 @@
>  switch (mode)
>    {
>     case lnxInitVCSrw:
>-         setCursorPos=SetCursorPosVCS;
>+         setCursorPos=SetCursorPos;
>          getCursorPos=GetCursorPosVCS;
>          break;
>     case lnxInitVCSwo:
>-         setCursorPos=SetCursorPosVCS;
>+         setCursorPos=SetCursorPos;
>          getCursorPos=GetCursorPosGeneric;
>          // Set the cursor to a known position to avoid reading the
>          // postion.
>          SetCursorPos(0,0);
>
>  
>


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