Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:54:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] console palette fix |
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> I've seen the problem on both of my computers with Creative Riva TNT2. On > this card the palette turns darker. On other cards the palette turns to > rubbish or corrupted in another fashionable ways. It's a bug in those > cards - switching to video mode and back to text mode doesn't preserve the > text mode palette so the OS must restore it by itself.
Now looking closer to the XFree86 code your right. It is buggy hardware. XFree86 X servers do attempt to reset the VGA palette themselves for all cards. It is basic code and should work on all video cards.
> about this problem exactly. Read the console.c of 2.4 - Linus already > patched it this way (your patch and then my patch), so I suggest we do the > same in 2.2.
Agree. Alan please patch 2.2.X with both are patches.
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