Problem:
The range of consoles to switch to mda consoles is specified by
mda_first_vc and mda_last_vc. The consoles acutally switched and used for
mda are one above the specified consoles.
Example:
$ modprobe mdacon mda_first_vc=13 mda_last_vc=16
May 14 23:34:24 spiral kernel: mdacon: Hercules with 8K of memory detected.
May 14 23:34:24 spiral kernel: Console: switching consoles 14-17 to MDA-2
^^^^^
The consoles 14-17 are those switched to by pressing ALT Gr-F2 to F5.
Those are /dev/tty14 to /dev/tty17. I am sure we want /dev/tty13 to
/dev/tty16 switched to by ALT Gr-F1 to F5.
Fix:
take_over_console is called with first and last console as specified by
mda_first_vc and mda_last_vc though I think it counts the consoles from 0
and not from 1. So we have to substract the parameters by 1.
--- /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/mdacon.c Sat May 15 01:09:19 1999
+++ mdacon.c Sat May 15 01:20:20 1999
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@
if (mda_first_vc > mda_last_vc)
return;
- take_over_console(&mda_con, mda_first_vc, mda_last_vc, 0);
+ take_over_console(&mda_con, mda_first_vc-1, mda_last_vc-1, 0);
}
#ifdef MODULE
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