Bug#374839: xserver-xorg-core: rapid scrolling or repainting scrambles xterm or emacs display

[Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu>]

 > >  > Sounds like http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363120 .

Yes; these should be merged.  I don't know how to do this.

 > > I followed the link to your patch.  It sounds as if a workaround would
 > > be to change virtual terminals before sleeping.  I will try that.
 > 
 > Does it work?

Yes, and even better, it turns out that changing VT and then changing
back again is a fine workaround, even after waking from sleep.

 > I'll take your word for it, although the suspend/resume process should
 > arguably switch to a dedicated VT anyway, as it does on my PowerBook.

A good plan.  It ought to be possible to devise something for
/etc/apm/event.d that would do the job.  If I write something, would
you be interested in getting it integrated somewhere so that debconf
could install it on machines with both X and APM?


Norman