Console text selection bug

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:
> At 10:35 PM +0100 3/5/01, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>When I select text in console it's scrambled. I looked at the
> >>aty128 sources, but I didn't find anything about it. Where is
> >>the code that manages selection/cut/paste ?
> >>
> >>The selected text is scrambled in this way: every char has
> >>the bits 1,2,3 swapped with bits 5,6,7 respectively (bits
> >>numbered left to right). I don't know what can cause this
> >>strange behaviour... I thought the console screen was a
> >>simple array of char/colour pairs.
> >
> >It's an endian bug in fbcon when accessing the text/attribute buffer.
> >
> >I think someone posted a fix for it, You may have more luck asking on
> >the fbdev mailing list to the fbdev maintainers what's up.
> >
> >I think it's related to fbcon_invert_region() not using the access
> >macros and directly tapping the buffer, causing attributes & text
> >to be messed up.
>
> I saw this problem in 2.4.x until I turned off the config option for
> VGA consoles.  Then it went away.

Nevertheless, it's a bug. Can someone please change fbcon_invert_region() to
use scr_{read,write}w() to access the shadow screen buffer and see whether it
works? Patches are accepted at linux-fbdev-devel at lists.sourceforge.net :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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