Re: console remains blanked

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 13:38 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Before 2.6.12-rc2, the console was unblanked by just
> >writing to the console.
> >For keyboardless and mouseless systems (which is my
> >case, embedded) this new behaviour is a bit annoying.
> 
> Interesting. I have observed the following (2.6.13-rc1 and a little 
> earlier):
>     mplayer bla.avi -vo cvidix
> After the blanking time, all chars turn black[1] but are still "visible" 
> thanks the movie in the background - a vga palette manipulation to the entries 
> 0-15 as it seems. This is quite different to writing 80x25 the space character.
> 

I don't think this is related to the patch Albert is talking about

Ben.


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