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.)


** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #528357
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528357

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