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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa scvidctl.c videoio.c videoio.h syscons.c syscons.h src/sys/alpha/conf files.alpha src/sys/al
In-Reply-To: <199809171223.OAA05727@gratis.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Sep 17, 98 02:23:58 pm"
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In reply to Mark Murray who wrote:
> "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> > Ah, that's how to turn that off! :-) Mine does it too.  We should
> > probably revert whatever change caused this to happen by default since
> > it's very evil and it didn't use to happen.  Telling people to rebuild
> > kernels with "PLEASE_DONT_FLICKER_AND_DRIVE_ME_CRAZY" is not much of
> > an option since most folks don't RTFM anyway and they'll just conclude
> > (rightly) that our console driver is broken.
> 
> Er, the option is there, but its functionality has been blatted.

>From a quick look at the sources, i see no significat change, except
that the code is now in videoio.c instead of syscons.c


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