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- From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: X font restoration under 386BSD
- Message-ID: <8092@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 18:44:25 GMT
- Sender: news@aiai.ed.ac.uk
- Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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- I'm running X386 under 386BSD 0.1 on a machine with a Genoa 6400 svga
- card.
-
- When X exits, the screen is not correctly restored. It appears that
- the font and screen contents are not being restored to the values
- saved when X started up. Closer examination reveals that only every
- fourth byte of the saved font is being restored - those bytes whose
- offset is equal to 2 mod 4 are restored, the rest are zero.
-
- The code in X386 looks correct; if I write a program that uses similar
- code to save the font before entering X and restore it after X exits,
- it seems to work.
-
- Can anyone explain this? Is anyone using a Genoa svga under 386BSD
- without this problem?
-
- -- Richard
- --
- Richard Tobin,
- Human Communication Research Centre, R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
- Edinburgh University.
-