Re: 109+l-con90

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:26:41 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Martin Mares wrote:
> > That's because the fbcon clear stuff works in multiples of the character size.
>
> Maybe the switch hook could clear the rest of screen.

You mean the switch hook in the frame buffer device, not in fbcon.c, I assume?

It's a bit complex because it depends on the fontwidth and the screen
organization. What do you think of a clear_margins() member function in class
display_switch?

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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