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List:       ggi-develop
Subject:    Re: fbcon-KGI bridge progress
From:       Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven () cs ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date:       1998-06-29 11:11:44
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Erlend Hoel wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > I can't test it as a module because I get the infamous black-on-black
> > characters problem when I enable fbcon |-<. 
> 
> FWIW (probably less than 0.02) I tried compiling a stock 2.1.107 kernel
> with fbcon enabled, and got a black on black myself.

Please aply the patches at

    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/bin/geert-2.1.107.diff.gz

> This was with a standard as-is kernel downloaded from nic.funet.fi - so
> what I'm getting at is that this might not have anything to do with your
> hacks, this might well be how fbcon operates in its present state.

The black-on-black problem was caused by a difference between Linus' tree and
the vger tree.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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