gpm and XF401 (Re: ADB-Mouse)

Josh Huber huber at mclx.com
Tue Oct 24 03:27:16 EST 2000


On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:00:02PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> You mean you mark some text at console with gpm and all you get in the
> selected area is garbage, even with a non psaux device?
> I tried it here on a chrp machine and got the same effect, could be a
> framebuffer bug. Anyone else with that problem?
> 
> I have XF4 here with kernel 2.4 and no problems at all (fbdev driver).

I have the same problem on a g4 (r128 fb driver) when using 2.4.

I haven't had the time to look into it, but selecting text in console
mode is definately broken.  It looks like it's somehow using the wrong
characters for the highlighted versions of the text.

Anyone have any ideas,

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Josh
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