Re: How to fix my 2.2.8 box?
>>>>> "Lindsay" == Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au> writes:
Lindsay> My new deb box has all sorts of display problems. mc, for instance, has a
Lindsay> grey background instead of the familar blue, and most of the text is grey
Lindsay> also, making it a tad hard to read.
Lindsay> I suspect that it has something to do with LANG=C but I can not figure out
Lindsay> how to fix it. Any help will be much appreciated.
It has nothing to do with LANG. It has to do with the vga16
framebuffer console. If you switch to another VT and back, it will
be full color again. The penguin boot logo's color set is not the
same as the standard VGA16 color set, and the palette needs to be
reset.
A VT switch forces the palette to be reset, as does:
echo -ne '\033]R'
... which belongs in the `console-tools' init script. I have sent
them a bug report and a patch. I hope it gets acted on for Potato!
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