From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: fbdev <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: lost console font setting
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:32:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e47339105061007323956ab83@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e47339105061007013f1984de@mail.gmail.com>
On 6/10/05, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the x86 if I load radeonfb the VGA console loses it font. Runing
> setfont or switching to X and back restores the font. How is the VGA
> font controlled, what needs to be change in radeonfb to stop it from
> stomping the VGA font? This is all in text mode, fbconsole is not
> running.
I found the source of this. radeonfb memsets VRAM to zero at load.
That sets all the chars in the VGA font table to zero which makes the
console disappear.
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