Bah, text is reversed as hoped, but white anywheres a character
hasn't been drawn.  Looks like the next step is ite.c?

Joshua Coombs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Coombs" <jcoombs@gwi.net>
To: <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:55 PM
Subject: Reverse Video


> I've got a kernel built for an SE/30 at
> http://www.x386.net/netbsd.gz if anyone wants to try.  My box is
at
> work, so while I know it'll boot, I can't see what it's spitting
> onto the CRT. :)
>
> I finally ended up reversing the 6x10.h font file, and building
the
> kernel afterwords.  This provides reversed text, whithout
> interfering with X's color setup.  (IE for X white is still
white.)
> The kernel is also setup with the wscons monoattr setting so
kernel
> text will show up reversed (in this case, black text on a white
> field.)  I have no idea how dt will look, it may look like normal,
> it may reverse to black on white...  Your guess is as good as
mine!
> : )
>
> Also, now that I know how fonts are setup for wscons,
> http://rockbox.haxx.se/fonts/ has some nice fonts we can use if we
> want on our macs.  Might be nice to have choices.  If this font
> trick works I'd like to see it intergrated as a kernel conf
tunable.
>
> Joshua Coombs
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