Subject: Re: Wierd MOL VT issues
From: Peter M. Bagnall (pete@surfaceeffect.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 17:53:21 MST
>When I run MOL in X, everything works fine.
>
>When I run it in a virtual console, it seems to overlap with whatever was
>there
>previously. It's really hard to describe. The mouse and keyboard input both
>seem to go to the old owner of the console.
>
>If I don't set the VT number manually, it will use the same console as my X
>server (I'm using Xpmac), and all mouseclicks and keyboard movement go to
>the X
>server. If it's console 8 or 9, which don't seem to be used by anything else,
>then the mouse behaves like the console mouse: a block, one character large,
>that moves one complete space at a time, rather than pixel by pixel.
>
>MacOS, however, boots just fine and draws to the screen whenever it feels the
>need.
>
>This started happening with MOL 0.9.38, so I upgraded to 0.9.40, and it
>made no
>change.
>
>Any guesses? I assume it's an issue with my setup, and not with MOL.
I've seen something similar (I think) happen once. With me it happened when
I switched from VT8 to VT7 and back again a few times within a very sort
space of time (like three switches in a second) while MacOS was still
booting. Switching fast once it's up seems ok. But I found that the mouse
seemed to activate the icons in MacOS but they were being displayed in VT7.
It was as if the two screens were rendering to the same VT and competing
with each other.
I've been more careful about not switching VTs until MacOS is fully booted
now and I've not seen the problem again. With me Mol correctly selects VT8
though.
I'm running 0.9.38 still, no time to upgrade yet...
Don't know if this is anything like the problem you've had though. I've
only had this happen once though and I wasn't expecting it so whether I
could reproduce it I don't know, I'll give it a go and see.
Pete
-- Peter M. Bagnall pete@surfaceeffect.com - http://www.surfaceeffect.com/
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