Comment 3 for bug 448977

This bug was fixed in the package usplash - 0.5.44

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usplash (0.5.44) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Add usplash_backend_name() function to the svgalib and bogl backends,
    returning "svga" and "bogl" respectively.

  [ Scott James Remnant ]
  * Move the console restoration into an atexit() function registered
    before the one from the svga or bogl backends; that way switching
    the VT doesn't result in svgalib having a panic attack and vomiting
    all over everything.
  * Remove the svgalib code guarding against restoring text mode when in
    a child process of the one that initialised the display; since we
    daemonise, this code meant we never restored text mode and left a
    corrupted or blank display. LP: #448977, #447692.

 -- Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:36:31 +0100