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Date: Fri, 06 Jan 95 07:13:41 -0600
Subject: SYSCONS BUG?
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with the following set:

vidcontrol -t 120 -s fade

i encountered the following:

saver kicked in, i pressed left-ctrl, the screen brightness went up, and 
washed out every[?] display color but yellow.  the background was visibly 
overdriven [black should not be dark gray], forground yellow was also 
overdriven.

a blind reboot command rebooted the machine [kernel messages were 
displayed, in the same overdriven yellow [sync, reboot] [the only changes 
i made to syscons.c were the default normal and kernel colors].

i've been running the fade saver for a few days now, and this is the first 
time it's happened this way.

if i have the time, i'll look at the fade saver code, but be warned that 
the possibility of this happening exists.  at this point, the only 
solution i know of is a reboot.

previously uptime less than 24 hours.  2.0-RELEASE.

 3:44AM  up 11 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00

Fri Jan  6 03:44:17 CST 1995