Bug#462626: [Splashy-devel] Bug#462626: Yay! fixed it!

2008-04-03 Thread Luis Mondesi
Very very nice! Yes, this is a discussion we had with Dennis (from DirectFB). He told me to essentially do what you said, reopen the device if it gets zero lenght. The temporary fix was to just yield the CPU for 2 seconds (which we patch and submitted the patch upstream). I´m on vacation now but

Bug#462626: Yay! fixed it!

2008-04-03 Thread John Hughes
Ok, so working on my theory that the problems were caused by init interfering with splashy's use of the console I tried patching directfb to close and reopen the console if it gets a zero length read. This works in testing, but when I tried it on a real boot things failed again, strace showed: 54