[Lcdproc] Release 0.5.1 ?

[Steve Hill]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Russell Krayer wrote:

> I have lcdproc-CVS-current-20060918 with CFONTZ633_WRITE_DELAY=50 running 
> seemingly flawlessly on my PowerPC-based gentoo box (a kurobox) with gcc 
> 4.1.1.

I also have it working without problems under Fedora Core 4 with the write 
delay set to 50.

There is a bug with the keypad input handling in the CFontzPacket driver 
though:
Since it does differential updates to the screen instead of refreshing 
the whole screen each render cycle, if nothing has changed on the screen 
it never sends a packet to the display (this happens if you have heartbeat 
turned off).  The key-press packets are only read from the port while 
waiting for an ACK after sending a command to the display, so if the 
data in the frame buffer doesn't change it never looks for any key-press 
packets.

I've worked around this by making it to send a "ping" command to the 
display on every render cycle.  It's a bit of a kludge, but it works.

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