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Bug 1507 - Black screen/missing console after leaving sdl-program with fbcon
Summary: Black screen/missing console after leaving sdl-program with fbcon
Status: RESOLVED ENDOFLIFE
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: *don't know* (show other bugs)
Version: 1.2.15
Hardware: ARM Linux
: P2 major
Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2012-05-27 12:21 UTC by sd
Modified: 2015-08-25 09:38 UTC (History)
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Description sd 2012-05-27 12:21:11 UTC 
Starting and using a program that runs on fbcon (with sdl 1.2) works,
but after I quit the program, the screen turns black and stays black,
and the framebuffer console is no longer accessible.

After

SDL_Quit();
exit(0);

I end up with a black screen instead of the Linux framebuffer console
from which I started the program. The machine has to be rebooted to be usable again. This problem doesn't occur with other framebuffer programs that don't use SDL.
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2015-08-25 09:38:23 UTC 
Hello, and sorry if you're getting several copies of this message by email, since we are closing many bugs at once here.

We have decided to mark all SDL 1.2-related bugs as RESOLVED ENDOFLIFE, as we don't intend to work on SDL 1.2 any further, but didn't want to mark a large quantity of bugs as RESOLVED WONTFIX, to clearly show what was left unattended to and make it easily searchable.

Our current focus is on SDL 2.0.

If you are still having problems with an ENDOFLIFE bug, your absolute best option is to move your program to SDL2, as it will likely fix the problem by default, and give you access to modern platforms and tons of super-cool new features.

Failing that, we _will_ accept small patches to fix these issues, and put them in revision control, although we do not intend to do any further official 1.2 releases.

Failing that, please feel free to contact me directly by email (icculus@icculus.org) and we'll try to find some way to help you out of your situation.

Thank you,
--ryan.