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Re: [PATCH] Clear out gfxterm's virtual text_buffer - fixes junk at end


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clear out gfxterm's virtual text_buffer - fixes junk at end of lines
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:58:00 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:15:04AM -0700, Joe Auricchio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My first patch! Please be nice.
>
> * src/term/gfxterm.c (grub_virtual_screen_setup): Clear out text_buffer
> instead of leaving it uninitialized.
>
> This fixes a 100% reproducible and very annoying bug I've found: Switch 
> to gfxterm and until your clear the screen or scroll, the last position 
> of every line has a random junk character in random foreground and 
> background color. I believe the root cause is that the virtual_screen's 
> text_buffer is uninitialized; as the cursor reaches a new position, the 
> uninitialized junk data is drawn to the screen. Really, the entire screen 
> is junk, but it's never marked dirty so it's never drawn. So let's just 
> clear out the whole text_buffer when we set up the screen.

But grub_virtual_screen_free() already set the whole structure to 0 at the
beginning of grub_virtual_screen_setup().

Does a zero-filled screen result in garbage, or is something else overwriting
it?

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."




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