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.
Actually, I don't see the palette mask (0x3c6) set anywhere in vgacon. The code
in line 259 sets the first 16 entries of the internal palette (0x3c0: 0x0-0xf)
so it points to the first 16 entries of the DAC.
Tony
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