#2556 NORM Future : Getting an SCI causes characters to disappear from the console fb

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#2556: Getting an SCI causes characters to disappear from the console fb
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   Reporter:  cjb        |       Owner:  dilinger      
       Type:  defect     |      Status:  new           
   Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:  Future Release
  Component:  kernel     |     Version:                
 Resolution:             |    Keywords:                
Next_action:  never set  |    Verified:  0             
  Blockedby:             |    Blocking:                
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Comment(by mikus):

 Replying to [comment:5 pgf]:
 > If you touch a key, does the full display come back?
 yes

 > I suspect the symptom you see correlates with screen blanking.
 That may be.  I'm surprised if "console screen blanking" were to operate
 not upon the screen as a whole, but instead upon some but not all of the
 individual characters being displayed.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2556#comment:6>
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