On 9/5/05, Rob Hamrick <rph@chaosnet.org> wrote:
> 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?

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.

Cheers,

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jmmv/
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