I've been fooling around with the code a bit and here's what I've figured out so far:
1) If you don't boot usplash there's no problem. 2) restorepalette (from svgalib-bin) from will fix the problem temporarily (see below). In particular, it's the part that restores vga color map registers that does the trick. But here's what's weird: if you write code to query those vga registers, you find that the mapping is already correct. So it's the act of rewriting the correct values into the registers that fixes it. 3) Switching back to X and then back to the console screws everything up again, even after you've run restorepalette. But again, there's no problem if usplash was never run in the first place. So presumably we either have a) the svgalib code setting up something wrong (note that usplash calls routines in the wrong order in some cases, for example calling vga_setchipset before vga_init, though as far as I can see all the initialization happens correctly), or b) there's a bug either in the ATI X driver or ATI's VBE implementation. -- usplash messes up colors on console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/60915 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
