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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: console remains blanked
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:27:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1121437648.5963.28.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507141329270.26404@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

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.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-15 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-13 23:12 console remains blanked Albert Herranz
2005-07-14  9:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-14 10:18   ` Albert Herranz
2005-07-14 11:38     ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-07-15 14:27       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-07-15 14:26     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-07-15 14:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-07-15 15:09   ` Albert Herranz

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