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Title: console scroll
Post by: dtruchan on March 14, 2004, 06:50:37 pm

Is anyone else having a problem with scrolling after booting to runlevel 2 on CackoQT?

I only get the bottom line to scroll, the area under the picture.

I tried pdaXrom and I also have the problem, only the area under the picture scrolls.  Although after quitting X, it works fine.

Using clear does clear the screen, but in both cases, the area where the picture was displayed is only repainted once and scrolling doesnt take place.

Title: console scroll
Post by: maslovsky on March 15, 2004, 10:11:45 am

What ROM version do you use?

Title: console scroll
Post by: albertr on March 15, 2004, 12:32:44 pm

Are you talking about TUX logo? If so, I believe it\'s by design... Take a look at linux/drivers/video/fbcon.c. I have an SL-5500, and in my kernel to allow console to access all the screen I had to remove TUX logo completely from fbcon.c. There must be a better way to do it, but I\'m just lazy.
-albertr

Title: console scroll
Post by: dtruchan on March 15, 2004, 09:56:59 pm

In a not so very elegant way, I fix it.

After seeing this (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1638&highlight=consolescroll) I got an idea.

I used consolescroll (http://developer.ezaurus.com/sl_j/source/c860/consolescroll) and updater.sh.c860 (http://developer.ezaurus.com/sl_j/source/c860/20031107/updater.sh.c860) from here (http://developer.ezaurus.com/sl_j/source/c860/kernel_update_c860.htm).

I pulled zImage and initrd.bin out of slc7x0-Qtopia-1438050304.zip and put them all on a CF and flashed it.  
First thing I noticed was the Sharp image started to scroll away but the flash didn\'t work.  Some spawn too fast error, I don\'t remember exactly.
Dejected, I flashed slc7x0-Qtopia-1438050304 and the sharp image again scrolled away. / then c at wait... and everything works now.  

I don\'t know what consolescroll (http://developer.ezaurus.com/sl_j/source/c860/consolescroll) does, but it seems to have stuck past the flash.  

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What ROM version do you use?  

It has happened to me using the following

original Sharp ROM
slc7x0-Qtopia-1033040304
slc7x0-Qtopia-1256240204
slc7x0-Qtopia-1438050304
pdaXrom-1.0.0  

only at boot up by pressing a (or c) on the QT ROMs and just login to pdaXrom.  
It looks like to me that the boot logo is displayed in all cases and don\'t go away until something... then it works.
But it looks like Sharp fixed it, I don\'t think my method was what they intended though.  

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Are you talking about TUX logo? If so, I believe it\'s by design

no, the Sharp logo on CackoQT and the ShirtPocket logo on pdaXrom.

Title: console scroll
Post by: maslovsky on March 16, 2004, 01:58:59 am

I thought it was only me, but I did the same before - I simply executed consolescroll binary and it fixed the scrolling! The strange thing is that it survices reflashing of ROMs...

I\'ll add the consollscroll binary to the downloads section.