Re: Screen regen buffer at 0x00b8000

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Gábor Lénárt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:17:43PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Well I started out opening /dev/vcs, lseeking to 64, and writing
> > a string. This "sort of" worked, but screen attributes got messed
> > up so the "blue" screen attribute 0x17 ended up eventually being
> > black.
>
> /dev/vcsa != /dev/vcs !!!!
>
> There are two different devices, as far as I remember, one is only for
> the characters itself on the console, and one includes attributes as well ...
>
> FYI Documentation/devices.txt:
>
> 0 = /dev/vcs          Current vc text contents
>                  1 = /dev/vcs1         tty1 text contents
> [...]
>                128 = /dev/vcsa         Current vc text/attribute contents
>                129 = /dev/vcsa1        tty1 text/attribute contents
>
> - Gábor

Thanks, I'll check this out.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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