Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] tty open screws X color palette

[Antonino A. D. <ad...@ho...>]

On Friday 13 August 2004 19:47, Olaf Hering wrote:
> An 'echo foo > /dev/tty42' while X runs will screw the color palette, if
> tty42 wasnt in use before. Tested on ibook G3 and G4.
> This will happen with rage128 and radeonfb in 2.6.5 and later,
> X version is 4.3.99.
>
> X runs usually with a different color depth than the kernel framebuffer
> console.
> How can this be fixed? tty open should not touch the hardware if the tty
> is not active.

I tried the above and nothing happens to X.  My setup is X86 nVidia AGP
on rivafb linux-2.6.8-rc4-mm1.

There are a bunch of framebuffer patches in rc4-mm1, perhaps those will
help.  Otherwise, it's probably a driver or arch specific problem.

Tony