On 11-Apr-06, at 5:24 AM, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 00:17:38 -0300, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>
>> I've noticed on a few of my vesafb test machines that in 8bpp
>> paletted mode, the console text colour is a very dark grey. It seems
>> that this is because I use rasops_cmap to initialize an "ANSI
>> colourmap", and the definition of ``white'' is as follows:
>>
>>         0xc7, 0xc7, 0xc7, /* white - XXX too dim? */
>>
>> If I override this value in vesafb to something higher, let's say
>> { 0xdf, 0xdf, 0xdf }, then the text is actually readable. I've also
>> heard reports of other users of rasops that have similar problems
>> with the default text colour being too dim. In my experience though,
>> not all VESA devices are nearly as dim.
>
> The green on your screenshots is so bright, that I'm willing to bet
> you are bitten by the brain dead BGR default of rasops15 that makes
> dim green "00000 01111 000000" looks briht "000000 11110 00000".

Sorry, I should have been more clear -- those are 8bpp paletted mode  
screenshots.

Cheers,
Jared