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Re: amd64 9.1, pre-wscons text colours?
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:39:53PM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> NetBSD/amd64, 9.1.
>
> What controls the colours used for console text output before wscons
> takes over? When I build a kernel with WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_GREEN and no
> WS_KERNEL_BG, I see green on black, both before and after the switch
> from text mode to text-in-graphics mode. WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_BLACK and
> WS_KERNEL_BG=WSCOL_BLACK, and both are black-on-black.
>
> But WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_LIGHT_BROWN (I wanted yellow, that looks like
> the closeset available approximation) and WS_KERNEL_BG=WSCOL_BLUE?
> Once wscons switches, everything is as I would expect - but, before
> that, it's white on black!
>
> So there's clearly something I don't understand going on. What?
That's all wscons; drmkms taking over isn't the same step as wscons
taking over. But anyway: my guess is that you can't use the bright
colors. I vaguely recall some issue with that long ago...
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David A. Holland
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