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usplash package

  1. Bug #392795
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 392795

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Norm Pierce (npierce-at2a) wrote :

Another bug resulting from the fact that usplash doesn't restore the VGA registers is LP:395374.

Either of the two patches that I attached to that bug report should fix both that bug and this one. The first patch above will also fix both bugs, but the second, "Patch to make usplash restore Color Plane Enable Register", will only fix this bug, so one of the other patches is preferred.

All patches have worked fine for me, but whichever patch, if any, is used, I hope that someone who knows the code better than I do will look it over to see if any handshaking is necessary to prevent usplash and the kernel from trying to write to the VGA registers at the same time.

(By the way, the "garbage" mentioned in step 7 above, that is displayed by showconsolefont with some recent kernels, should be eliminated by kernel 2.6.30. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528357 for details.)