Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 13:05:18 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: wc.bulte@chello.nl Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syscons colors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004211303470.62105-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000421114722.E11432@yedi.wbnet>
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 04:03:02AM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > I noticed during the install that the colors on alpha are different > > from those on i386. Instead of a blue background there was a red > > one, and in turn the red menu letters are blue. Well, my thought > > went, it's an alpha, maybe Jordan prefers a distinctive color scheme > > for that. Today I started up w3m and the colors there are wrong > > too, so this appears to be a general issue not limited to sysinstall. > > > > Is this some bizarre feature, a bug, ...? > > > > [AXPpci33, 4.0-RELEASE, Matrox Millennium] > > I've also seen sysinstall use red on my Miata with S3 based VGA. At least > you are not alone ;-) As I hardly use the graphics console on my Alphas I > do not have much experience with applications using color. Its a known bug. For some reason, the text-mode vga palette is different on alpha. It would be possible to work around this in the console driver but noone has felt it important enough to do yet. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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