Re: Pixel errors - CV64

["Georges Heinesch" <geohei-ml%geohei.lu@localhost>]

Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (03-May-01 19:20:26):

> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:05:00AM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
>  
>> check_disks=YES

> what does this do?

See next mail from you ... ;)

>> > 3. You don't run xconsole, so the output writes to the console
>> > and overwrites
>> >    whatever is there in video memory.
>> 
>> Hmmm ... this should not happen even if xconsole is not used ?!?!

> Hey, thats the traditional Unix console device behaviour known from,
> e.g., SunOS (at least up to 4).

No, what I meant was that the _pixel_ _error_ should not show up even
when xconsole is not working.

> As I said, a different console device can really work around this,
> but the ite can't.

Ok, gonna make sure that xconsole is running when X11 is up. However
the pixel errors are still somewhat troubleing ...

>> > 2. could be helped by leaving out those warning messages, or
>> > decoupling them from general kernel DIAGNOSTIC messages. I'm very
>> > tempted to do that, but have to leave for kindergarten and work
>> > in a couple of minutes.)
>> 
>> Ok, gonna compile a new kernel with this option commented out.
>> 
>> But still I believe that writing to the console should never
>> interfere with video memory, resukting in pixelk trashing.

> writing to the console IS interfering with video memory :-)

yea right ... "interfere" in the sense of making pixel errors.

>> Sounds like a bug for me ?!

> See above. Standard Unix behaviour, for some values of Unix.
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
             xconsole yes, but the pixel errors aren't stadard Unix
             behaviour.

> If you want to get rid of it faster, provide a patch for the driver
> of your choice. Preferably a wscons backend :-)

Hmmm ... I'm not into this business (unfortunately). I can do basic C
stuff only. The driver is really some floors above my level.

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