Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2023-09-09 Thread David Rosenbaum
hanks On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 9:42 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 27 January 2023 22:31:17 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:24:41 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > --->8 > > > > I've attached the reject files. > > > > Thanks for these! It looks like it'll probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2023-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 27 January 2023 22:31:17 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:24:41 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > I've attached the reject files. > > Thanks for these! It looks like it'll probably be straightforward to > amend the patch for 6.1.8. Are you currently runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2023-01-27 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:24:41 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 26 January 2023 20:28:36 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > --->8 > > Again, on any problems please let me know and I'll try to fix them. As > > ever, there are no guarantees, etc., etc., etc. My only promise i

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2023-01-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 26 January 2023 20:28:36 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: --->8 > Again, on any problems please let me know and I'll try to fix them. As > ever, there are no guarantees, etc., etc., etc. My only promise is that > there's no malicious code in the patch. Good news! Well, partly... :) I a

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2023-01-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 15:13:02 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 16:13:23 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 15:47:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello Alan, > > > On Saturday, 31 December 2022 14:08:43 GMT you wrote: > [ ] >

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2023-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 1 January 2023 15:13:02 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > $ file /lib/rc/console/font > > > /lib/rc/console/font: Linux/i386 PC Screen Font v2 data, 256 characters, > > > Unicode directory, 22x11 > > > > > > I use consolefont="ter-122n" from the terminus-font package. It's a long > > > t

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2023-01-01 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 16:13:23 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 15:47:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello Alan, > > On Saturday, 31 December 2022 14:08:43 GMT you wrote: [ ] > > I think you've put your finger on it: > > $ file /lib/rc/console/fon

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2022-12-31 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thanks Dave On Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 11:13 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello again, Peter. > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 15:47:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello Alan, > > On Saturday, 31 December 2022 14:08:43 GMT you wrote: > > > > What I'm thinking here is that you might be installing a font

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2022-12-31 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello again, Peter. On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 15:47:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello Alan, > On Saturday, 31 December 2022 14:08:43 GMT you wrote: > > What I'm thinking here is that you might be installing a font which is > > bigger than the 8x16 standard that you appear to be booting with.

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2022-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello Alan, On Saturday, 31 December 2022 14:08:43 GMT you wrote: > What I'm thinking here is that you might be installing a font which is > bigger than the 8x16 standard that you appear to be booting with. To > check this, would you please do: > > # file /lib/rc/console/font > > , which sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2022-12-31 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter, thanks for the reply. The photo was extremely helpful! On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 09:42:54 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Morning Alan, > On Thursday, 29 December 2022 19:50:18 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I've got a first version of a patch which attempts to handle GPM in > > conj

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2022-12-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello again, Peter. On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 10:53:07 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 03:44:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 12 December 2022 18:23:28 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Here is the latest version of my soft scrolling patch for the gentoo > > > ker

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch.

2022-12-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 03:44:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 12 December 2022 18:23:28 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Here is the latest version of my soft scrolling patch for the gentoo > > kernel version 5.15.80. It will surely work on any reasonably recent > > kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch.

2022-12-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 12 December 2022 18:23:28 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Here is the latest version of my soft scrolling patch for the gentoo > kernel version 5.15.80. It will surely work on any reasonably recent > kernel version, and also on future versions. The new version doesn't > add any new functi

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch.

2022-12-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Mike. On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 19:29:43 +, Mike Civil wrote: > Many thanks for this. > I can confirm that it patches, compiles and works on 6.1 :) Thanks for the testing! 6.1 _is_ up to date. :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch.

2022-12-12 Thread Mike Civil
Many thanks for this. I can confirm that it patches, compiles and works on 6.1 :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch.

2022-12-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. Here is the latest version of my soft scrolling patch for the gentoo kernel version 5.15.80. It will surely work on any reasonably recent kernel version, and also on future versions. The new version doesn't add any new functionality, it just patches the kernel giving rise to fewer