RE: [BUG] 2.4.0-test4 and console

From: Forever shall I be. (zinx@linuxfreak.com)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 11:11:08 EST

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>
> That patch is 100% correct. That patches fixed palette setting problems.
> On most video hardware how the palette is set depends on the video
> mode. Thus you have to set the palette after the video mode is set. The
> video mode can be altered in con_switch. Please if anyone has problems let
> me know what hardware is doing this and what you are running. It is a
> correct patch but it could be that XFree86 either takes advantage of the
> kernel bug or XFree86 doesn't reset the hardware back to the correct state
> after switching to the console. Which happens alot :-(.
>
> James Simmons (o_

I've got a Diamond Viper v770, both nVidia's poorly written drivers
(0.9-4.1) and the stock drivers with XFree86 4.0.1 cause console palette
corruption.

-- Zinx Verituse <zinx@linuxfreak.com> gpg (id 921B1558) (fp 5746 73A1 2184 A27A 9EC0 EDCC E132 BCEF 921B 1558) James A Simmons wrote:

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