Re: [Lynx-dev] What blanks the blank spaces at the beginning of a line?

[David Niklas]

On Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 19:06:29 -0600
address@hidden wrote:
>       Quoth Paul Gilmartin, 'Context?  Example?  Is this in HTML?
> Is it between <PRE> ... <PRE> tags?'
>       The beginning of a line before the display of characters, the
> indentation of paragraphs (or whatever) , the left side of centered
> lines, pretty much any reason to leave the beginning characters of a
> line blank.  In HTML.  Beginning with kernel 4.19 (but the same lynx!)
> when the screen changes blank space at the beginning of a line
> inherits what was previously on the screen.
>       It doesn't happen in X.  Oddly it *does* happen in blank
> characters in the middle of a line *when* that space on the screen was
> previously occupied by a colored character (such as I use lynx.lss to
> make bold, italics, links...)
> 
> russell bell

Dear Russell Bell,
I had a similar problem when I was using the propriety AMD drivers
several years ago. I never solved it. I just changed drivers. My memory
is hazy on the matter, but your description sounds word for word
identical to my problem.
You might tell us what GPU driver the differing kernels are using.
The output of
1: lsmod
2: Reboot to old kernel
3: lsmod
would do nicely.

Sincerely,
David