Me again. The second half of my point 2) above was an error on my part: I was reading the wrong register. Querying the registers shows the messed up mapping.
A little sleep and I realized what's going on in point 3): X saves the state (with the screwed up palette registers) that it sees when GDM starts, and restores it every time you go back to the console. You can fix it on the console, but it gets unfixed every time you go back to X. Thus, as long as the problem is fixed by time X starts, everything is fine. So, the quick and dirty fix is to run the attached code right after usplash exits (essentially restorepalette pared down to the bare essentials to fix this problem). Of course, the logical thing would be to put this code into usplash itself; however, putting it in the obvious place (the atexit routine in svgalib/src/vesa.c) didn't seem to do the trick. This may be the problem with bug #139453 also... ** Attachment added: "Code that resets the VGA palette registers to their defaults." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20079824/fixpal.c -- 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
