Re: gpm question

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 servis@purdue.edu wrote:

> *- Bob Nielsen wrote about "gpm question"
> > I recently upgraded a system from hamm to slink and then to potato and
> > notice that gpm will only recognize the first 25 lines of my screen. 
> > 
> > I'm running SVGATextMode with a 80x30 screen.  I seem to remember gpm
> > working fine with this before.  Is there something I missed?
> > 
> 
> I think you have to make sure that gpm starts AFTER SVGATextMode. 
> Otherwise gpm initializes with the standard 80x25 and then it doesn't
> know about what SVGATextMode has done to the screen.
> 
> If you are already doing this then ignore me.

I wasn't, but that "fixed" it, although the patch for Bug #31815 appears
to be the real solution.

Thanks, Bob

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