Re: Dark fonts in console

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote:

> Kent West wrote:
>
> > After upgrading a couple of my sid boxes (to 2.6.3-1-k7), after the 
> > boot I find that the console fonts suddenly turn dark just before 
> > getting to the login screen. It's like the brightness on the monitor 
> > suddenly gets dropped down to 20%; not so dark you can't read the 
> > fonts, but dark enough to strain your eyes. Brightness levels in X 
> > seem fine; it only affects consoles.
> >
> > I temporarily disabled /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh (by putting 
> > "exit 0" as the first executable line in that script), and the screen 
> > stayed normal until I was able to log in. Sometime after that I found 
> > the consoles were again dark, but I don't know the exact sequence of 
> > events.
> >
> > Google was less than enlightening (either me, or my consoles :-) ).
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Man setterm.
> Kenneth.
That looked promising, thanks! But unfortunately, it didn't solve the 
problem. But it did give me a new clue.

I can set some attribute, say "setterm -blink on" or "setterm bold", 
that attribute will kick in (and the bold helps, but only marginally), 
but as soon as I execute a command like "ls", that attribute goes away 
back to what it was before.

--
Kent