Re: gpm/kernel stuff

Aaron Crane (AC8@soas.ac.uk)
Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:50:09 GMT

> I have posted this before and am uncertain what happens here, if it's kernel
> related or gpm related :
>
> when I'm using gpm and cut/paste, I sometimes get garbled paste output :
>
> ftp://ts 11.mit.edu/pub/linu /p ck ges/GCC
>
> it misses consequently the same characters. rebooting linux solves it and it
> looks like that it is system wide. e.g. when another user uses cut/paste,
> the same happens.
>
> Anyone who has an idea ? linux 2.0.29 and gpm 1.10

One thing that occurs to me: do you ever get scrambled console screen
output apart from with gpm? For example, my gfx card (a 2mb Cirrus 5446)
is a bit flaky and tends to lose characters and get weird attribute
settings and so on (and also has one or two very minor problems in
XFree86, which get much worse if I turn linear mode off). With that card,
gpm cut/paste is broken because the card is. I'm absolutely certain that
the problems lie with the card: it's independent of OS and user software,
and even happens for BIOS startup messages.

Regards.
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