OK, thanks for pointing that out.  So, do I understand this right?
Even if I rebuild the kernel with the appropriate options, there is
(currently) no way to get color in the console with the macppc port?

I'll move on to setting up X then...

Thanks for the help! 


> wscons supports colors depending on the backing device used to
> access the screen.  See:
> 
>     http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/wscons/#colors
> 
> Unfortunately, macppc's framebuffer is not supported yet by these
> features.  Implementing them shouldn't be hard, I think.
> 
> Anyway, I highly recommend you to set up X.  The console is *very*
> slow on scrolling (even if you enable the OFB_ENABLE_CACHE option
> in the kernel) and lacks virtual terminal support.
>
>
> > I just finished my first install of NetBSD--on an iMac G3.  Everything
> > went well, thanks to the documentation and all the posts to this list.
> > I haven't set up X yet, since I'd like to work with the console for a
> > while.  However, the default white background is a little hard on my
> > eyes.  Is there a way to reverse the default colors?  Or even to get
> > colors in the console?