[PATCH 1/1: 2.6.15-rc6] Fix clearing of vertical margins

Whenever the font width does not divide the x resolution, the remainder
of this division is a vertical margin at right of the screen. Whatever the
video memory contains in that margin is displayed.

This patch corrects this behaviour. There is no performance impact
as long as there is no vertical margin as fbcon_clear_margins() and
bit_clear_margins() only execute additional code if really necessary.

I think this patch should be applied before 2.6.15-final.

Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <redacted>

diff -uprN -X linux/Documentation/dontdiff -x '*.bak' -x '*.ctx' linuxorig/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c linux/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c

--- linuxorig/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c	2005-12-15 10:34:42.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c	2005-12-20 09:41:32.000000000 +0100

@@ -1399,7 +1399,7 @@ static __inline__ void ypan_up(struct vc
 	ops->var.yoffset = p->yscroll * vc->vc_font.height;
 	ops->var.vmode &= ~FB_VMODE_YWRAP;
 	ops->update_start(info);
-	fbcon_clear_margins(vc, 1);
+	fbcon_clear_margins(vc, 0);
 	scrollback_max += count;
 	if (scrollback_max > scrollback_phys_max)
 		scrollback_max = scrollback_phys_max;

@@ -1426,7 +1426,7 @@ static __inline__ void ypan_up_redraw(st
 	ops->var.yoffset = p->yscroll * vc->vc_font.height;
 	ops->var.vmode &= ~FB_VMODE_YWRAP;
 	ops->update_start(info);
-	fbcon_clear_margins(vc, 1);
+	fbcon_clear_margins(vc, 0);
 	scrollback_max += count;
 	if (scrollback_max > scrollback_phys_max)
 		scrollback_max = scrollback_phys_max;

@@ -1450,7 +1450,7 @@ static __inline__ void ypan_down(struct 
 	ops->var.yoffset = p->yscroll * vc->vc_font.height;
 	ops->var.vmode &= ~FB_VMODE_YWRAP;
 	ops->update_start(info);
-	fbcon_clear_margins(vc, 1);
+	fbcon_clear_margins(vc, 0);
 	scrollback_max -= count;
 	if (scrollback_max < 0)
 		scrollback_max = 0;

@@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ static __inline__ void ypan_down_redraw(
 	ops->var.yoffset = p->yscroll * vc->vc_font.height;
 	ops->var.vmode &= ~FB_VMODE_YWRAP;
 	ops->update_start(info);
-	fbcon_clear_margins(vc, 1);
+	fbcon_clear_margins(vc, 0);
 	scrollback_max -= count;
 	if (scrollback_max < 0)
 		scrollback_max = 0;




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Knut Petersen wrote:

Whenever the font width does not divide the x resolution, the remainder
of this division is a vertical margin at right of the screen. Whatever the
video memory contains in that margin is displayed.

This patch corrects this behaviour. There is no performance impact
as long as there is no vertical margin as fbcon_clear_margins() and
bit_clear_margins() only execute additional code if really necessary.

I think this patch should be applied before 2.6.15-final.

Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <redacted>

NAK.  The right margin is cleared just once on an fbcon_switch (entire
yres_virtual). The right margin should remain cleared until another
fbcon_switch happens so it's not necessary to clear the right margins again.

Tony


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NAK.  The right margin is cleared just once on an fbcon_switch (entire
yres_virtual). The right margin should remain cleared until another
fbcon_switch happens so it's not necessary to clear the right margins again.

Tony

 

You are right. I hit an internal limit of the cyberblade engine.

cu,
 knut


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