prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk said:
> Is there a way of changing the colours displayed by the virtual
> terminals? My problem is that I am getting black on black.. 


Hmm - do you think it is likely that eg blue-on-black is
visible on your screeen while while-on-black is not?
I'd say there is a more serious problem with your setup.
If you can't try another graphics card - could you try to
kick out the "vga" driver out of your kernel configuration
and use "pcdisplay" instead (which doesn't try too many
fancy features)?

best regards
Matthias