[Lcdproc] Re: glcdlib driver problem

[Lucian Muresan]

Hi J=F6rn,

I've got something for you to try...

Lucian Muresan wrote:
> Joern Hermann wrote:
>> Hi Ethan,

[...]

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>> Looks bad, doesn't it?
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> Yes, it's looking bad. I had the suspicion that the glcdprocdriver, or=20
> the glcdlib driver in LCDproc has this kind of problem for a long time,=
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> in fact, since I wrote the whole meta driver, but until now nobody=20
> complained. All I can see on my setup are 8 pixels vertically left over=
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> in the upper left corner of my graphical display, when starting LCDproc=
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> right after a native graphlcd-base application (the VDR graphlcd plugin=
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Ok, this was another problem, in the noritake800 driver of=20
graphlcd-base, I will submit the patch to the graphlcd-base maintainer.

> for instance). Now I have the prove that the problem is serious, I will=
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> investigate more thoroughly.


I couldn't try irmp3 (you mean http://irmp3.sf.net, don't you?) on my=20
gentoo (pretty up to date distribution) as none of the versions from the=20
download section compile...
However, I did some modifications to the glcdprocdriver, which might=20
improve clearing of the screen (with glcdlib, unfortunately the=20
buffering gets a little more complex). So I would like to ask you to try=20
  and report the behaviour with this:
http://www.muresan.de/graphlcd/lcdproc/glcdprocdriver-0.0.4-pre1.tar.bz2

Lucian