Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932524AbVJTU1b (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:27:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932525AbVJTU1b (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:27:31 -0400 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.195]:39624 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932524AbVJTU1a convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:27:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cB5SogHYL/OLfd+rMsrG3S242jZkxTS+9RdmArixE3cwcr/BJwg9dKnRiy7hyEXkSaJ7uWCM9ABEjiXhUtER3ffBBWwzLYTak29yIUnSdoafSZr9B67wn2ukVRDH6i5+OeqCkO9q2ZnCX/6IQtQyPQNGDs+PJNsaCNk1cf8hEwA= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:27:29 -0400 From: Bob Copeland To: Pozsar Balazs Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix vgacon blanking Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051020161311.GA30041@ojjektum.uhulinux.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051020161311.GA30041@ojjektum.uhulinux.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 19 On 10/20/05, Pozsar Balazs wrote: > Hi all, > > This patch fixes a long-standing vgacon bug: characters with the bright > bit set were left on the screen and not blacked out. > All I did was that I lookuped up some examples on the net about setting > the vga palette, and added the call missing from the linux kernel, but > included in all other ones. It works for me. Thanks for this. Looks like the palette mask is set to something funky. I had the same problem on my machine but never got annoyed enough to poke around in the code. -Bob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/