Hi all,
I got following bugreport for matroxfb:
On 25 Jan 01 at 16:51, Brieuc Jeunhomme wrote:
> Hi ! I'm not sure you are the right person to report this problem,
> please excuse me if you aren't. I have noticed that the driver does not
> display the proper number of spaces when printing the second tabulation
> of the file I send in attachement with a simple cat command. It is not a
> bug of cat, because I had the same problem with a dummy program which
>
> And the resolution is 200x75. I hope this may help.
Code inspection found that tab_stop[] array has only 160 elements, instead
of needed 200...
Do you see any reason why not apply this patch? This extends vc_tab_stop[]
array from 5x32 bits to 8x32 bits - 256 columns should be enough, as
some kernel parts use only 8bit for column number, so anything wider than
255 does not work reasonable anyway.
Patch was generated from 2.4.0-ac9, but should work also with other versions
(namely 2.4.1-pre10). And even without this patch we need some fixing,
as Esc...g (set tabstop) can modify palette instead of tabstops for
columns >160 :-(
This patch has one problem - it changes size of vc_data struct, so kernels
before patch and after patch are not binary compatible in console subsystem.
Thanks,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
diff -urdN linux/drivers/char/console.c linux/drivers/char/console.c
--- linux/drivers/char/console.c Mon Jan 15 11:13:24 2001
+++ linux/drivers/char/console.c Thu Jan 25 16:20:59 2001
@@ -1411,7 +1411,10 @@
tab_stop[1] =
tab_stop[2] =
tab_stop[3] =
- tab_stop[4] = 0x01010101;
+ tab_stop[4] =
+ tab_stop[5] =
+ tab_stop[6] =
+ tab_stop[7] = 0x01010101;
bell_pitch = DEFAULT_BELL_PITCH;
bell_duration = DEFAULT_BELL_DURATION;
@@ -1689,7 +1692,10 @@
tab_stop[1] =
tab_stop[2] =
tab_stop[3] =
- tab_stop[4] = 0;
+ tab_stop[4] =
+ tab_stop[5] =
+ tab_stop[6] =
+ tab_stop[7] = 0;
}
return;
case 'm':
diff -urdN linux/include/linux/console_struct.h linux/include/linux/console_struct.h
--- linux/include/linux/console_struct.h Mon Oct 16 19:53:18 2000
+++ linux/include/linux/console_struct.h Thu Jan 25 16:19:59 2001
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
unsigned char vc_utf : 1; /* Unicode UTF-8 encoding */
unsigned char vc_utf_count;
int vc_utf_char;
- unsigned int vc_tab_stop[5]; /* Tab stops. 160 columns. */
+ unsigned int vc_tab_stop[8]; /* Tab stops. 256 columns. */
unsigned char vc_palette[16*3]; /* Colour palette for VGA+ */
unsigned short * vc_translate;
unsigned char vc_G0_charset;
-
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