[Lcdproc] Re: glcdlib driver problem

[Lucian Muresan]

Joern Hermann wrote:
> Hi Ethan,
> 
>> but one thing you might try is to change the config options for
>> glcdlib from a real LCD display to the bitmap driver, then inspect the
>> output bitmaps.
> 
> So I changed to "image" and... yepp, the output looks damaged like on 
> my real grafic displays. Starting, everything looks okay:
> http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/4290/lcd00143yc5.png
> 
> When I add this album to the playlist (have a look at the last line, where 
> some text is added):
> http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6373/lcd00144it8.png
> 
> And finally, playback starts and irmp3 tries to display the song title:
> http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4130/lcd00151cg9.png
> 
> Looks bad, doesn't it?

Yes, it's looking bad. I had the suspicion that the glcdprocdriver, or 
the glcdlib driver in LCDproc has this kind of problem for a long time, 
in fact, since I wrote the whole meta driver, but until now nobody 
complained. All I can see on my setup are 8 pixels vertically left over 
in the upper left corner of my graphical display, when starting LCDproc 
right after a native graphlcd-base application (the VDR graphlcd plugin 
for instance). Now I have the prove that the problem is serious, I will 
investigate more thoroughly.
Note that my home phone line / ADSL is completely down at the moment, so 
I won't be able to follow the list or give some feedback, until tomorrow 
when I'm back to work, or the damned line gets fixed again.
Also, if I won't come up shortly with a fix, it's mainly because I'm a 
bit busy these days, but of course, if anybody finds the real cause for 
the bug in the glcdlib driver or the glcdprocdriver wrapper, (s)he's 
welcome to contribute :-)

Cheers,
Lucian