Fw: Ncurses flickering.

[Brendan \"newclear\"]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martijn Vernooij" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: Ncurses flickering.


> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Thomas Dickey dickey-at-herndon4.his.com
|bugs-ncurses/1.0-Allow| wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:53:49AM +1100, Brendan inglese wrote:
> > > and FreeBSD 4.3 , the  freebsd meachine runs my program, but does not
> > > flicker,
> > > but the linux one runs it and it flickers every time the screen is
> > > refreshed , the entire screen
> > > flickers even though that only one (small) window is refreshed :-(
> > > the freebsd terminal type is 'cons25', and on linux ive tryed 'xterm'
> > > and 'linux', and 'vt100'.
> > > how can i elminiante this unwanted flickering, thanks :-)
> >
> > I don't see any flickering (on Linux).  I guess I need more information
> > (such as the terminal emulator you're using, and the version of
ncurses).
> >
> The linux console is just much slower than the bsd one, when using
> terminal emulation. This is really only a problem on older machines
> (like pentium 1 class).
>
> Is there a reason why the linux vcs devices are not supported
> in ncurses? Accessing these is much faster.
>
> Martijn Vernooij
>
>
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Verry odd, the linux computer im using is a 900mhz athlon with 328 mb ram
:-/
thanks for all your help anyway.