From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>
Cc: Tamas K Papp <tpapp@Princeton.EDU>,
Debian PPC <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: open messes up the screen
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:57:11 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110949031.14171.137.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050315173827.GA10301@pants.nu>
> Well, open is really openvt. It fiddles around with the console to
> start up a program on a new virtual console. X doesn't always like
> that, but it should work better than that. The vt change should
> trigger X to properly cleanup the screen before the switch. I'd
> say file a bug.
>
It's not a VT change issue. It's an old bug of the fbcon code that
causes opening a VT to reset the palette on the current fb even when not
in front.
Ben.
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2005-03-16 4:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-03-17 21:05 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: open messes up the screen Antonino A. Daplas
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