On Mon, Jul 09, Jeff Rugen wrote:

> I did have VGA console be the default, and installed clgenfb as a module.

Is there a way to rmmod the module later?
The colors are wrong in X whit >8bit and the console is slow with fbcon :)

> On a related note, the endianness issue with gpm seems to also show up
> when running the VGA console -- any text that is written to a non-visible
> virtual terminal is not byte-swapped, so it appears to be garbage when you
> switch back to that virtual terminal.  This isn't a problem when running
> clgenfb as the terminal though (I don't know how gpm worked in either
> mode).

The attached patch fix that, but it seems to be wrong.
Geert said the shadow buffer is stored in native endian. The VGA text
console itself is the "shadow buffer" for the foreground console and
little endian.



Gruss Olaf

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