Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:17:10 +0800 | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix vgacon blanking |
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Bodo Eggert wrote: > Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@uhulinux.hu> 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.
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