On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:23:01PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Pozsar Balazs <[email protected]> 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).
Maybe I can test it tomorrow. But as the posted patch work as-is, cannot
do any harm because it just makes sure the register is set as it should
be, and we are talking about a not-so-often called slowpath, I think it
should just be merged and get forgotten, without making a big hassle
making around it :)
On the other side, as this bug is a little annoyment, it can be tested
in -mm until 2.6.15 or so. I have the cure now, so I'm happy with it :)
--
pozsy
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