From: "Antonino A. Daplas" A long standing bug in fbcon where switching/opening a vt will also set the palette even if the vt is in the background. This results in color corruption in the foreground vt. From: Antonino Daplas Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/video/console/fbcon.c~fbcon-do-not-set-palette-if-console-is-not-visible drivers/video/console/fbcon.c --- 25/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c~fbcon-do-not-set-palette-if-console-is-not-visible 2005-03-20 16:05:00.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c 2005-03-20 16:05:00.000000000 -0800 @@ -2331,6 +2331,9 @@ static int fbcon_set_palette(struct vc_d if (fbcon_is_inactive(vc, info)) return -EINVAL; + if (!CON_IS_VISIBLE(vc)) + return 0; + depth = fb_get_color_depth(&info->var); if (depth > 3) { for (i = j = 0; i < 16; i++) { _