On 11-Apr-06, at 8:32 AM, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> On 11-Apr-06, at 8:13 AM, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
>> Yeah, but still it *looks* like your RGB components are messed
>> somewhere.  Amy be a bug somehwere in VESA ROM (whereever it lives)
>> code, etc.
>>
>> Oh, and what happens if you try that fg=red experiment?
>
> The red is an intense red similar to that of the green. No blue at  
> all.

Ok, Valeriy pointed out that it appeared to be only using the 6 lsb  
for each colour, and he was right. I neglected to set BH on the set  
DAC palette function call, and it was defaulting to 6 bits per  
primary. All is well now.

Thanks all!

Cheers,
Jared