On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Laurent Papier wrote:

> David Brownlee wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Laurent Papier wrote:
> > 
> > > I have also notice that under X11, a mount_ados command corrupt the X11
> > > screen, and I need to quit X11 and restart.
> > >
> >         What do you mean by 'corrupt the X11 screen'?
> >         Does 'xrefresh' clear it up?
> >         Are you running 'xconsole' or 'xterm -C'?
> 
> I mean, it's seems like all blocks of 8 pixels are rotated. On screen,
> this produce vertical bands. My X server is still running all right :
> I can lauch new xterm, but Xrefresh doesn't help. I need to quit X11,
> and relauch the X11 server (with startx).
> I have a PicassoII (/dev/grf3) and use a 1024*7?? 8bits screen mode.
> It seems that 'mount_msdos' produce the same problem.

This corruption happens when a program writes to the console, like
mount_ados does. If you run xconsole, these messages will be captured
correctly, and no corruption will occur.

Best regards,

Torgeir Lilleskog, tli@idi.ntnu.no