When reading /dev/vcsa while a font with more than 256 characters is
loaded, one of the attribute bits records the 9th bit of the character.
But depending on the console driver (vgacon or fbcon for instance), that's
bit 3 or bit 0. And there is no way for userland to know that, thus no way
for userland to safely grab the screen content. So here is a (tested)
patch:
Add a VT_GETHIFONTMASK ioctl for knowing which bit is the 9th bit for VC
text (vc_hi_font_mask field of the vc_data structure).
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Some fix that I forgot for good accessibility of lxdialog (the cursor
should always be left at the focus location):
Have the checklist display the currently highlighted entry last, for having
the cursor left on it (rather than on the last line of the list).
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
For coping with bad keyboards, permit to type a braille pattern by
pressing several chords. By default, only one chord is needed.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
Fix the "apm: set display: Interface not engaged" error on Armada laptops
again.
Jordan said:
I think this is fine. It seems to me that this may be the fault of one or
both of the APM solutions handling this situation in a non-standard way, but
since APM is used very little on the Geode, and I have direct access to our
BIOS folks, if this problem comes up with a customer again, we'll solve it
from the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jordan Crouse" <[email protected]>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
For easily getting fairly good accessibility, the TTY cursor should
always be left at the focus location. This patch fixes the checklist by
just having the list refreshed after the dialog box (hence the cursor
position remains in the list).
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
This corrects cursor resize on ega boards: registers are write-only, so we
shouldn't even try to read them. And on ega, 31/30 produces a flat cursor.
Using 31/31 is better: except with 32 pixels high fonts, it shouldn't show
up.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
EGA boards suck: they mostly have write-only registers. This is
particularly problematic for the overflow register: for being able to write
to it, we would have to handle vertical sync & such too, which (I'd say)
would potentially break a lot of configurations. Instead, just disabling
vertical resize for EGA boards is just nice enough (horizontal resize still
works).
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6106
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafal Olearski <[email protected]>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Here is a fixup for tags file generation, for proper tags of
__releases/__acquires functions.
Signed-off-by: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Some visually impaired people use hardware devices which directly read
the vga screen. When newt for instance asks to hide the cursor for
better visual aspect, the kernel puts the vga cursor out of the screen,
so that the cursor position can't be read by the hardware device. This
is a great loss for such people.
Here is a patch which uses the same technique as CUR_NONE for hiding the
cursor while still moving it.
Mario, you should apply it to the speakup kernel for access floppies
asap. I'll submit a 2.4 patch too.
Signed-off-by: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Fix bug 5441.
I didn't know about messy programs like svgatextmode... Couldn't this be
integrated in some linux/drivers/video/console/svgacon.c ?... So because
of the existence of the svgatextmode program, the kernel is not supposed to
touch to CRT_OVERFLOW/SYNC_END/DISP/DISP_END/OFFSET ?
Disabling the check in vgacon_resize() might help indeed, but I'm really
not sure whether it will work for any chipset: in my patch, CRT registers
are set at each console switch, since stty rows/cols apply to consoles
separately...
The attached solution is to keep the test, but if it fails, we assume that
the caller knows what it does (i.e. it is svgatextmode) and then disable
any further call to vgacon_doresize. Svgatextmode is usually used to
_expand_ the display, not to shrink it. And it is harmless in the case of
a too big stty rows/cols: the display will just be cropped. I tested it on
my laptop, and it works fine with svgatextmode.
A better solution would be that svgatextmode explicitely tells the kernel
not to care about video timing, but for this an interface needs be defined
and svgatextmode be patched.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Some people use 66-cells braille devices for reading the console, and hence
would like to reduce the width of the screen by using:
stty cols 66
However, the vga text console doesn't behave correctly: the 14 first
characters of the second line are put on the right of the first line and so
forth.
Here is a patch to correct that. It corrects the disp_end and offset
registers of the vga board on console resize and console switch.
On usual screens, you then correctly get a right and/or bottom blank
margin. On some laptop panels, the output is resized so that text actually
gets magnified, which can be great for some people (see
http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/ls.jpg ).
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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