Hi!
I have reported a problem yesterday which I have debuged today.
Between test2 and test4, some changes were made in console.c and one
doesn't seem to work properly on my computer. The offending lines are :
if (redraw) {
set_origin(currcons);
set_palette(currcons);
if (sw->con_switch(vc_cons[currcons].d) && vcmode != KD_GRAPHICS) {
/* Update the screen contents */
set_palette(currcons);
do_update_region(currcons, origin, screenbuf_size/2);
}
}
set_palette was move from outside the if (sw->...) into the if.
I use XFree-4.0.1 and with this change if I move back and forth from xfree
and the vt, the palette isn't restored correctly, ie it's quiet impossible
to read on the console. The first time, the characters are a little
visible (contrast is lowered), but if I do that many times, the console
screen is totally black, in a unusable state (because i'm not very good at
typing without echo).
To circumvent this problem, I have made the following patch which works
very well on my computer (it restored the old way of doing this). By the
way my video card is a TNT2 ultra if it can change something.
--- linux-2.4.0-test4-bug/drivers/char/console.c Tue Jul 11 15:20:01 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-test4/drivers/char/console.c Fri Jul 14 17:10:47 2000
@@ -584,12 +584,12 @@
currcons = new_console;
hide_cursor(currcons);
}
-
+
if (redraw) {
set_origin(currcons);
+ set_palette(currcons);
if (sw->con_switch(vc_cons[currcons].d) && vcmode != KD_GRAPHICS) {
/* Update the screen contents */
- set_palette(currcons);
do_update_region(currcons, origin, screenbuf_size/2);
}
}
--
Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : mchouque@stevens-tech.edu
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