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From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] fbcon: bgcolor fix
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:28:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <486A5B1A.6050901@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0807011750570.20393@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Tuesday 2008-07-01 17:38, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 
>> The forth bit of the background color is the blink property bit, not the
>> intensity bit, as for the foreground color.
>> Therefore it shouldn't be included in the background color.
> 
> I'm a bit skeptical, though I have not tried this.


If you look at the build_attr function in drivers/char/vt.c you can see 
that the blink attribute is stored as the forth bit of the background color.

I tried the patches with both an ncurses application and manually using:

echo -en '\E[5m'

and they seems to work fine.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01 15:38 [PATCH 1 of 2] fbcon: bgcolor fix Stefano Stabellini
2008-07-01 15:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-01 16:28   ` Stefano Stabellini [this message]

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