Re: console bleeds
Aaron Ucko (UCKO@vax1.rockhurst.edu)
Thu, 14 Mar 1996 17:34:44 -0600 (CST)
>::: Sorry Linus, but I am still getting console bleeds in 71. I was using tty2
>::: for telnet over a slow ppp link and tty3 for an ftp over the same link.
>::: tty4 and later on tty6, had some of the text from tty3 shifted to the left.
>::: tty4 was not being used except by agetty and tty6 was idle. After that I
>::: tried switching VCs around a lot, and tty2 and 3 got corrupted with text
>::: from other VCs and the text wasn't shifted to the left.
>
>: All of this behavior occurs in both old and new kernels.
>
>Yesterday, or perhaps the day before, I looked at console.c.
>There is a bad bug in patch 1.3.3 that was supposed to give
>improved scrolling. This bug is enough to explain all reports
>about console problems (and possibly some others as well:
>a scrolling console that is not the foreground console might
>scribble on random memory). Hope to submit a patch soon.
Sounds great. I can't wait!
>However, if anyone has a problem with old kernels (where old
>means 1.2.*, or anything else before 1.3.3), then there is
>something else wrong as well.
I think "old" just means early 1.3 in this case; 1.3.3 _did_ come out about
a year ago. The only problem which I'm sure I had before that concerns
my graphics card (a VLB CLGD5428 w/1M RAM) sometimes locking up in high-
or true-color mode.
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