Re: amd64 9.1, pre-wscons text colours?

[Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 05:20:53AM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> VGA has only 8 colors and an intensity attribute. You cannot select
> the "light" ANSI colors. The VGA driver will fail attempts to
> allocate such color attributes, so you get white on black instead.
...
> When DRM takes over, such hardware limitations no longer apply.
> The framebuffer code can handle more colors.

you mean you don't get a graphic console right away on that machine? Is this
BIOS related?

Reinoud