Re: [9fans] Scrolling considered harmful

2013-05-06 Thread tlaronde
So I have read the various man pages (starting from plan9.ini that only sets environment values) to vga. If I understand correctly, the vesa adjusting is only done if the monitor variable is set to 'vesa', value that do not appear in the database. Previously, I have used other values for

Re: [9fans] Scrolling considered harmful

2013-05-03 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:18:37AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: i have seen that some ati cards are not happy with some modes. you may wish to try cinap's realemu which is at 9fs atom # srv $nflag -q tcp!atom.9atom.org atom # mount $nflag /srv/atom /n/atom atom

Re: [9fans] Scrolling considered harmful

2013-05-03 Thread erik quanstrom
I have retrieved atom aux/realemu and I will have to test. But before, I will have to read the aux/vga sources to understand what it expects. Because aux/vga -p gives me all the informations about the vesa supported modes of the card, and even the monitor settings (I wonder that the problem

Re: [9fans] Scrolling considered harmful

2013-05-03 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 02:57:12PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: the problem is that the VBE calls that are used to set up various video modes jump to vendor-provided real mode code that is often buggy. the reason for emulation is (a) to avoid problems associated with real-mode code

[9fans] Scrolling considered harmful

2013-04-23 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I had already reported that a machine froze hard when manipulating windows under rio. Indeed, nasty things arise when some program is spitting a huge amount of text; window is blocking while there is more; I then, in the middle of the process, switch to scrolling. The nasty thing is

Re: [9fans] Scrolling considered harmful

2013-04-23 Thread erik quanstrom
I had already reported that a machine froze hard when manipulating windows under rio. Indeed, nasty things arise when some program is spitting a huge amount of text; window is blocking while there is more; I then, in the middle of the process, switch to scrolling. The nasty thing is

Re: [9fans] Scrolling considered harmful

2013-04-23 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:37:14AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: Indeed, nasty things arise when some program is spitting a huge amount of text; window is blocking while there is more; I then, in the middle of the process, switch to scrolling. The nasty thing is writing in memory in

Re: [9fans] Scrolling considered harmful

2013-04-23 Thread erik quanstrom
with a: ATI Technologies Radeon 9200SE 5964 (rev. 0x01) BTW, I had no problem before having to change the monitor. The new one is a 20 LCD, and the thing can decide parameters on its own. With the old monitor, I had not this... Since the new monitor is also with screen ratio

Re: [9fans] Scrolling considered harmful

2013-04-23 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:18:37AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: Since the new monitor is also with screen ratio (1600x900), I wonder if my untouched: vgasize=800x600x16 can not be a problem (because I can also switch to scrolling and resizing the window because lines wrap...).