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Its is the userland responability to restore the console state after 
leaving KDGRAPHICS mode. You need to save the hardware state before you 
leave KDTEXT mode as well. 

That's a bit nasty as I just wrote, and very unpractical. Especially
since it's really a _LOT_ simpler for the fbdev to just restore its
state when going back to KDTEXT.

Agree.  fbcon should save it's state before leaving KDTEXT or
reinitialize when leaving KDGRAPHICS.

I agree. The way the console system does it now is just broken. Even VGA 
console should save and restore its state. It wouldn't be a huge leap to 
do that either since we have code to change the screen resolution when we 
use different font sizes. The pieces are there, it just a matter of 
putting them together. Of course this is a 2.7.X issue.




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