Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:41:26 GMT | Subject | [PATCH] omission in video driver |
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Documenting the video ioctls, I noticed to my dismay that the ioctl to set the border color of the console screen is lacking.
Here part of the fix for 2.4.19:
--- /linux/2.4/linux-2.4.19pre4/linux/drivers/video/vgacon.c Fri Mar 29 01:02:00 2002 +++ ./vgacon.c Tue Apr 1 20:14:14 2002 @@ -244,6 +244,14 @@ outb_p (6, 0x3ce) ; outb_p (6, 0x3cf) ; #endif + /* + * Load overscan register red. + */ + inb_p(0x3da); /* clear flipflop */ + outb_p(0x11, 0x3c0); /* index overscan color */ + outb_p(0x0c, 0x3c0); /* load value */ + outb_p(0x20, 0x3c0); /* allow display memory + to access palette */ /* * Normalise the palette registers, to point Andries
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