From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: adaplas@pol.net
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: tty open screws X color palette
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:32:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040815063251.GA23843@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409150902.27378.adaplas@hotpop.com>
On Wed, Sep 15, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> 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.
Do you have 'Option "usefbdev" "true"' in our XF86Config?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-15 6:32 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
2004-08-15 6:32 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2004-08-15 9:37 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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