Hi James,
Linus is not the maintainer of the 2.2.* kernels, Alan Cox is (see CC).
Although this patch is correct, and was accepted in 2.4.*, it creates a
secondary problem after applying it - A dark textmode console for some
cards, unrelated to the frame buffer mode. An *additional* patch is needed
in order to fix it:
--- linux-2.2.17/drivers/char/console.c Mon Sep 4 15:39:17 2000
+++ linux.vanilla/drivers/char/console.c Thu Oct 5 15:17:00 2000
@@ -2569,6 +2569,7 @@
console_blanked = 0;
if (console_blank_hook)
console_blank_hook(0);
+ set_palette(currcons);
if (sw->con_blank(vc_cons[currcons].d, 0))
/* Low-level driver cannot restore -> do it ourselves */
update_screen(fg_console);
> Here is patch to fix console palettes for the 2.2.X kernels. Its against
> 2.2.17.
>
> --- console.c.orig Wed Oct 4 22:23:34 2000
> +++ console.c Wed Oct 4 22:28:50 2000
> @@ -575,10 +575,13 @@
> }
>
> if (redraw) {
> + int update;
> +
> set_origin(currcons);
> + update = sw->con_switch(vc_cons[currcons].d);
> set_palette(currcons);
> - if (sw->con_switch(vc_cons[currcons].d) && vcmode != KD_GRAPHICS)
> - /* Update the screen contents */
> + if (update && vcmode != KD_GRAPHICS)
> + /* Update the screen contents */
> do_update_region(currcons, origin, screenbuf_size/2);
> }
> set_cursor(currcons);
>
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