Re: [9fans] refresh problems with drawterm on x (freebsd)?

[anyrhine@cs.Helsinki.FI]

andrey mirtchovski wrote:

> Text will just disappear from acme and terminal windows. I wouldn't even be
> able to see the text in the menu options (though the green rectangle still 
> appears)

I'm having similar problems with linux and a slow (128k) network
connection, but it seems to be hardware dependent (possibly even
XFree86 bug?). On all <500MHz workstations with Matrox G200 display
card at our department I have a problem that after connecting with
drawterm, all characters of a font don't work (some do). After cat'ing
a file with lots of different characters and resizing the window a few times,
I'm able to get all the characters working. The ritual has to be repeated
for each font.

On newer 1.3-2.4GHz systems with Matrox G400 or G450 graphics I am
not able to reproduce this, but have the problem you described instead.
Unfortunately I can't remember did only the acme's font stop working, or
was it all fonts. I'll try to check this tomorrow.

Also, the drawterm I'm using isn't the binary in plan9 distribution, but
one built by myself (with gcc 2.96) from the source at sources. I had to
do this because I needed to make the port numbers configurable to get
around a firewall.

Using the same binary in the same network with the cpu server, and
with ati graphics, I have experienced neither of the problems, though
I've used it more.

	-Aki