Re: [PATCH] fix vgacon blanking

[Bob Copeland]

On 10/20/05, Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This patch fixes a long-standing vgacon bug: characters with the bright
> bit set were left on the screen and not blacked out.
> All I did was that I lookuped up some examples on the net about setting
> the vga palette, and added the call missing from the linux kernel, but
> included in all other ones. It works for me.

Thanks for this.  Looks like the palette mask is set to something funky.  I had
the same problem on my machine but never got annoyed enough to poke
around in the code.

-Bob
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