[Bug 261751] vt mouse pointer background display bug

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261751

--- Comment #4 from Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> ---
Thank you for the photo, I have an idea what's happening here and why I don't
see it. I believe this issue is reproducible with vt_vga only, not with an EFI
framebuffer.

In sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c:vga_bitblt_one_text_pixels_block() there is an
optimized special case for a "pixel block" having only two colours, and a more
general case for n colours. In the case in your photo we are using the general
case.

I suspect the general case has the R and B channels swapped.  If you can easily
try a patch we could confirm this by disabling the optimization. For example,

diff --git a/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c b/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c
index 563867399e53..c8041f1dac8b 100644
--- a/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c
+++ b/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ vga_bitblt_one_text_pixels_block(struct vt_device *vd,
         * The pixels block is completed, we can now draw it on the
         * screen.
         */
-       if (used_colors == 2)
+       if (0 && used_colors == 2)
                vga_bitblt_pixels_block_2colors(vd, pattern_2colors, fg, bg,
                    x, y, vf->vf_height);
        else

If I am correct this would result in a display that is consistently incorrect
-- the entire dialog background would be red, not just the location of the
mouse cursor.

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