Re: [vga16fb] `dbootstrap' starts b&w until vt change.

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:

>  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.

Yes, that's because the penguin logo requires most of the
16-color palette, and the palette doesn't get reset to the usual
one until a VT switch occurs.  You can fix this, IIRC, by having
dbootstrap force a VT switch or by having it set the palette
itself.

If I can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact
me.

Thanks,

Ben.
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