Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932521AbVJTVXN (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:23:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932543AbVJTVXN (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:23:13 -0400 Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.48]:57557 "EHLO mail-in-08.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932521AbVJTVXM (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:23:12 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix vgacon blanking To: Pozsar Balazs , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 7eggert@gmx.de Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:23:01 +0200 References: <4ZLja-4gH-5@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1062 Lines: 17 Pozsar Balazs wrote: > 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. This is strange, since according to my documentation, the value should have been initialized to 0xff and never been changed. Can you test setting this value during initialisation (around line 259, if I read correctly) instead? I don't know if I can test it myself soon enough. (I'm not the maintainer, I just happen to have some documentation). -- Ich danke GMX daf?r, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten L?gen zu sabotieren. - 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/