Re: ["Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>] [vga16fb] `dbootstrap' starts b&w until vt change.
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 03:03:37AM -0800, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
> Organization: CC CTU Prague
> To: karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)
> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:00:47 MET-1
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> Subject: Re: [vga16fb] `dbootstrap' starts b&w until vt change.
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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.
Maybe playing with con2fbmap, or getting the sourcefrom there could do it ?
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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