From: "Antonino A. Daplas" - As per VESA specs, use the VGA registers to set the palette if the mode is VGA compatible. Otherwise, use the protected mode interface. - Make pmi_setpal default to 1 Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/video/vesafb.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/video/vesafb.c~vesafb-prefer-vga-registers-over-pmi drivers/video/vesafb.c --- 25/drivers/video/vesafb.c~vesafb-prefer-vga-registers-over-pmi Tue May 9 12:53:27 2006 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/video/vesafb.c Tue May 9 12:53:27 2006 @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static int inverse = 0; static int mtrr = 0; /* disable mtrr */ static int vram_remap __initdata = 0; /* Set amount of memory to be used */ static int vram_total __initdata = 0; /* Set total amount of memory */ -static int pmi_setpal = 0; /* pmi for palette changes ??? */ +static int pmi_setpal = 1; /* pmi for palette changes ??? */ static int ypan = 0; /* 0..nothing, 1..ypan, 2..ywrap */ static unsigned short *pmi_base = NULL; static void (*pmi_start)(void); @@ -86,10 +86,24 @@ static int vesa_setpalette(int regno, un int shift = 16 - depth; int err = -EINVAL; +/* + * Try VGA registers first... + */ + if (vga_compat) { + outb_p(regno, dac_reg); + outb_p(red >> shift, dac_val); + outb_p(green >> shift, dac_val); + outb_p(blue >> shift, dac_val); + err = 0; + } + #ifdef __i386__ - struct { u_char blue, green, red, pad; } entry; +/* + * Fallback to the PMI.... + */ + if (err && pmi_setpal) { + struct { u_char blue, green, red, pad; } entry; - if (pmi_setpal) { entry.red = red >> shift; entry.green = green >> shift; entry.blue = blue >> shift; @@ -107,18 +121,6 @@ static int vesa_setpalette(int regno, un } #endif -/* - * without protected mode interface and if VGA compatible, - * try VGA registers... - */ - if (err && vga_compat) { - outb_p(regno, dac_reg); - outb_p(red >> shift, dac_val); - outb_p(green >> shift, dac_val); - outb_p(blue >> shift, dac_val); - err = 0; - } - return err; } _