linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] fbcon: bgcolor fix

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Message-ID: <486A5B1A.6050901@eu.citrix.com>
Date:	Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:28:10 +0100
From:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] fbcon: bgcolor fix

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Tuesday 2008-07-01 17:38, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 
>> The forth bit of the background color is the blink property bit, not the
>> intensity bit, as for the foreground color.
>> Therefore it shouldn't be included in the background color.
> 
> I'm a bit skeptical, though I have not tried this.


If you look at the build_attr function in drivers/char/vt.c you can see 
that the blink attribute is stored as the forth bit of the background color.

I tried the patches with both an ncurses application and manually using:

echo -en '\E[5m'

and they seems to work fine.
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