On Fri Jun 24, 2005 at 00:00:37 +0200, Bert van Leeuwen wrote:
OK, that works as far as CPU usage is concerned, but (as advertised) I now no longer get any updates in my L4Linux console (i.e. it is blank permanently), so it is not usable anymore. Is there any way to have a text L4Linux console which does not use up CPU, or should I just not ever switch focus to the L4Linux framebuffer console?
I see now that 2.4 doesn't quite support all the feature like rectangular updates as 2.6 does. I.e. for 2.4 there are only full periodic updates possible, even for the console. One way could be to increase the sleep value to e.g. 1000 (1sec) instead of 0.
There's also a console driver in l4/pkg/l4con/examples/linux24_stub_lib that is supposed to work with 2.4 but I'm not sure it does right now. To use it, enable the CONFIG_L4_DROPSCON option in L4Linux so that it links to the stub lib.
Adam