Menuconfig is empty unless the screen somehow get refreshed?

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Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:44 pm

I got this strange issue with my "make menuconfig"....

Basically I'm using size 9 Andale Mono with Xterm, then basically what happen is when i execute "make menuconfig" I'll get this picture below...

http://dberens.mystarband.net/pic.png

Then to get the text to show up, I will drag another window over the Xterm then the text show up, or anything that forces it to refresh.... Then when I select the next option it will show up empty again like the above picture, which i will then have to drag a window over it again to get the text to show up.... below is what it looks after i do that.

http://dberens.mystarband.net/pic2.png

Anyway any idea what is going on?

Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:54 am

*bump* This has been an really aggravating issue so It would be great if someone could send this post to the right forum if its in the wrong one, other wise, it would be great if someone has some idea, and yes I did a forum search for it and couldn't find anything that was relevant to my issue or fixed it

Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:14 am

*bump* it would be great help here! I've heard of people getting truetype fonts to work, and I want mine to work.

deface · Post by **deface** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:11 am

sounds like a bad video setup. i'd check your kernel/vid drivers & make sure their setup properly.

I'd also check your xorg.conf file and verify your hert/vert refresh rates are set correctly for your monitor; else use EDID settings.

Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:47 am

deface wrote:sounds like a bad video setup. i'd check your kernel/vid drivers & make sure their setup properly.

I'd also check your xorg.conf file and verify your hert/vert refresh rates are set correctly for your monitor; else use EDID settings.

Finished done that, maybe its the i810 driver itself, but I Know that my hert/vert rates are setted correctly for my display in X-windows, but when i'm in the console my screen does not display correctly and is shift down about 100-150ish pixels and the bottom of the console is actually off screen...

My video card is an GMA3000 integerated Intel video, and my monitor is a NEC 20wmgx2 display.

deface · Post by **deface** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:34 am

Could you paste your xorg.conf file, as well as your X log file ?

Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:19 pm

deface wrote:Could you paste your xorg.conf file, as well as your X log file ?

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Section "DRI"

	Mode	0666

EndSection

Section "Module"

	Load	"dbe"	# Double buffer extension

	SubSection	"extmod"
		Option	"omit xfree86-dga"	# don't initialise the DGA extension
	EndSubSection

	Load	"freetype"
	Load	"type1"

	Load	"glx"	# libglx.a
	Load	"dri"	# libdri.a

EndSection

Section "Files"

	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/freefonts/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/terminus/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/unifont/"

	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"

	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/artwiz/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/lfpfonts-fix/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/lfpfonts-var/"

	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/local/"

	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"

	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"

EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"

# Set the DPMS timeouts.

	Option	"blank time"	"10"	# 10 minutes
	Option	"standby time"	"15"
	Option	"suspend time"	"20"
	Option	"off time"	"30"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

	Identifier	"keyboard"
	Driver	"kbd"

	Option	"AutoRepeat"	"500 30"

	Option	"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option	"XkbModel"	"microsoft"
	Option	"XkbLayout"	"en_US"

	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:swapcaps"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

	Identifier	"mouse"
	Driver	"mouse"
	Option	"Protocol"	"ExplorerPS/2"
	Option	"Device"	"/dev/input/mouse0"

	Option	"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
	Option	"Buttons"	"6 7"
	Option	"ButtonMapping"	"1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
	Option	"Emulate3Buttons"	"no"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"

	Identifier	"NEC-20WMGX2"
	HorizSync	31.5 - 81.1
	VertRefresh	56 - 60
	DisplaySize	433 270

	ModeLine	"1680x1050" 146.2 1680 1960 2136 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089

	Option	"dpms"

EndSection

Section "Device"

	Identifier	"VGA"
	VendorName	"Unknown"
	BoardName	"Unknown"
	Driver	"vga"

EndSection

# The GMA3000 integerated video card
Section "Device"

	Identifier	"GMA3000"
	VendorName	"Intel"
	BoardName	"Q965 - BOXDQ965GFEKR"
	Driver	"i810"

	# Enable DPMS support on the screen
	Option	"DPMS"	"true"

	# Enable the video card to determinte the resolution and
	# other information from the DDC information provided by
	# other attached CRT/VGA devices
	Option	"DDCMode"	"true"

	# Enable DRI
#	Option	"DRI"	"true"

	# Enable XV video
	Option	"XVideo"	"true"

	# Disable Display Information
#	Option	"DisplayInfo"	"false"

	# Enable XvMC surface for movies rendering speedups
#	Option	"XvMCSurfaces"	"7"

	# Set the Video ram to 64 megabyte to 128 megabyte
	Option	"VideoRam"	"65536"
#	Option	"VideoRam"	"131072"

	# Sets the amount of graphic memory for 2D acceleration, needs this for HDTV playback
	Option "CacheLines"	"2048"
	
EndSection

Section "Screen"

	Identifier	"default-screen"
	Device	"GMA3000"
	Monitor	"NEC-20WMGX2"
	DefaultDepth	24

	Subsection	"Display"
		Depth	24
		Modes	"1680x1050"
		Virtual 1680 1050
		ViewPort	445 278	# 100 DPI, change if DPI changes 
	EndSubsection

EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier  "default-layout"

    Screen "default-screen"

    InputDevice "mouse" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection

XORG LOG
Xorg.log

Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:40 pm

*bumpy!*

It would be real nice if someone found a solution or gave me some hints to look in the right direction with this :-\

Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:55 pm

Antimatter wrote:*bumpy!*

It would be real nice if someone found a solution or gave me some hints to look in the right direction with this :-\

*bumpy some more* I have no idea why its doing this I've mucked with my fonts config for a while and it keep on doing it, and I've checked the docs everywhere and other forum posts, and all of them are no good, or don't apply to this sitution.

Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:33 am

*bump* anyone help?

desultory · Post by **desultory** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:37 am

Does this behavior only manifest during kernel configuration with make menuconfig? What version of xterm does this occur with? What is TERM set to in the xterm windows in which this happens (echo $TERM)? Have you tried other terminal emulators? If so, does the same behavior occur?

Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:05 pm

desultory wrote:Does this behavior only manifest during kernel configuration with make menuconfig? What version of xterm does this occur with? What is TERM set to in the xterm windows in which this happens (echo $TERM)? Have you tried other terminal emulators? If so, does the same behavior occur?

1) Only happens with make menuconfig
2) Its with x11-terms/xterm-222
3) Results of echo $TERM is xterm
4) Yes I've tried aterm recently, and it works, tho i couldn't get the xft font stuff to work with aterm or eterm or rvxt....

desultory · Post by **desultory** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:58 am

What is the full command used to invoke xterm? What configuration changes have you made to xterm?

billydv · Post by **billydv** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:40 am

Although I have preference of using make menuconfig to do a kernel, dont forget theres also make xconfig which will allow you to create your config in an xwindow

Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:39 pm

desultory wrote:What is the full command used to invoke xterm? What configuration changes have you made to xterm?

1) the full command to invoke xterm is just xterm that's it, however I've modified the .Xdefaults file, the file is below.

2)

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XTerm*faceName:         xft:Andale Mono
XTerm*faceSize:         9

XTerm*geometry: 90x30

XTerm*background:   black
XTerm*foreground:   gray
XTerm*cursorColor:  yellow
XTerm*color0:   black
XTerm*color1:   #40e0d0
XTerm*color2:   #87cefa
XTerm*color3:   #ffff00
XTerm*color4:   #d1eeee
XTerm*color5:   #eed8ae
XTerm*color6:   #b4eeb4
XTerm*color7:   gray
XTerm*color8:   gray40
XTerm*color9:   #ee6363
XTerm*color10:  #c5f779
XTerm*color11:  #fff796
XTerm*color12:  #00b2ee
XTerm*color13:  #cf9ebe
XTerm*color14:  #71bebe
XTerm*color15:  white

Notice this part XTerm*faceName: xft:Andale Mono, whenever i comment this out I get the ugly default xterm fonts that are waay too small for me to read, but make menuconfig works fine. I've changed the fonts around to something such as Bitstream Vera San Mono or other fonts, all of them have the same issue. I've made sure to use Mono spaced fonts for the console, and all of the other ncurses applications works fine with whatever fonts I select.

Also here's some additional information on my system.

Make.conf

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# Host and general compiling option settings
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"

MAKEOPTS="-j4"

# General portage feature settings

FEATURE="sandbox distlocks fixpackages test" # ccache"

CCACHE_DIR=/var/tmp/ccache
CCACHE_SIZE="2G"

PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage

# Xorg-X11 specific features
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev i810 v4l vesa vga"

# Language settings
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en_US en"

USE="-* nptl nptlonly crypt pam ssl tcpd unicode mmx sse sse2 nls"

Emerge --info

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Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6300  @ 1.86GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:50:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.15-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"

And finally the version of xorg-server is 1.1.1-r5

billydv wrote: Although I have preference of using make menuconfig to do a kernel, dont forget theres also make xconfig which will allow you to create your config in an xwindow

I'm aware of those, but one main reason why I avoid using those options are theyre just not as fast as using the plain menuconfig, plus the menuconfig is reachable over ssh, which is great because I sometime run system update from school and they only have windows workstations at school.

Also If i disable the fonts in xterm and use the default fonts it works fine, its just when i setup nicer and larger fonts that make menuconfig gets screwed up, but its still usable, i just have to select every item on the screen or somehow make the screen refresh then it will show up, and I got to repeat that for each change I do.

TheCoop · Post by **TheCoop** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:10 pm

I have a similar problem, except I need to move the xterm cursor over the text to get it to display. Moving a window over the xterm window doesnt work (but I'm running beryl, which draws off-screen afaik)

TheCoop · Post by **TheCoop** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:13 pm

upgrading to xterm-225 fixes this

Antimatter · Post by **Antimatter** » Fri May 04, 2007 2:24 am

TheCoop wrote:upgrading to xterm-225 fixes this

Yes it did

thanks, never thought about upgrading, but I did and now its working