From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: tty open screws X color palette
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:09:15 +0000 (UTC)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:02:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409150902.27378.adaplas@hotpop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040813114713.GA2168@suse.de>
On Friday 13 August 2004 19:47, Olaf Hering wrote:
> An 'echo foo > /dev/tty42' while X runs will screw the color palette, if
> tty42 wasnt in use before. Tested on ibook G3 and G4.
> This will happen with rage128 and radeonfb in 2.6.5 and later,
> X version is 4.3.99.
>
> X runs usually with a different color depth than the kernel framebuffer
> console.
> How can this be fixed? tty open should not touch the hardware if the tty
> is not active.
I tried the above and nothing happens to X. My setup is X86 nVidia AGP
on rivafb linux-2.6.8-rc4-mm1.
There are a bunch of framebuffer patches in rc4-mm1, perhaps those will
help. Otherwise, it's probably a driver or arch specific problem.
Tony
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-15 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-13 11:47 tty open screws X color palette Olaf Hering
2004-08-15 1:09 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2004-08-15 6:32 ` Olaf Hering
2004-08-15 9:37 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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