Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 May 2005 14:56:15 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Screen regen buffer at 0x00b8000 |
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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.
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