Re: Ncurses flickering.

[Martijn Vernooij]

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