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On 27 Feb 00 at 23:33, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> I'm working with the Debian boot-floppies team. We've got a kernel
> (the compact image) compiled with vga16fb, and it shows the Penguin
> logo when it boots. After booting, `dboostrap', a newt/slang UI
> application, is started by our `init', on vt1. Normally, it is white
> and red on IBM blue, but with the vga16fb, it's black and white,
> until using A-F2, A-F1 to switch to vt2 and back. Then it's full
> color again.
Hi Karl,
it is 'feature'. In 16 colors there are not enough palette entries
to have colorized penguin together with 16 standard console colors.
You'll have to switch console programaticaly or execute tty reset or
something simiallar (programming std. VGA palette using esc ] xxxxxx P)
in your code. Switching consoles is probably preferred, as it resets
some other fbcon internals too.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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