Re: VGA console palette & virtual console switching

Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 21:41:09 +0200

> Console ioctl PIO_CMAP sets the color palette for all virtual
> consoles (in 2.0.34).
>
> Why it doesn't change the palette only for a single virtual
> console? Is it a design feature or is it that nobody just
> hasn't written the code?
>
> Is this same for 2.1.x?
>
> If it's the latter, I could look at it. But not if it is
> non-wanted feature.

For both 2.0.X and 2.1.X, PIO_CMAP sets the palette for _all_ consoles
as opposed to ESC ]P which sets palette locally for the console it was
written to.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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