In article <404BB985.6030609@switchpwr.com>,
	mel kravitz <melk@switchpwr.com> writes:
> Does it return white text on black for 'DefaultDepth 16' ?

I didn't try that because ...

> -behavior you describe i see for 'DefaultDepth 24' for radeon cards,

... that bug was fixed a long time ago:

RCS file: /cvsroot/xsrc/xfree/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_
driver.c,v
Working file: radeon_driver.c
[...]
revision 1.2
date: 2002/06/25 17:54:32;  author: tron;  state: Exp;  lines: +2245 -680
Fix problems with virtual text console turning black after X11 has been
started. Patch supplied by Matthias Drochner in private e-mail.

It was unfortunately partially reinvented in XFree86 4.4.0 but is fixed
again now.

> on alpha.

If that still happens on NetBSD-alpha somebody needs to check why the
VGA restore mode code doesn't work there.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/