From: cga2000 <cg...@op...> - 2007-10-15 23:04:35
|
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:51:20AM EDT, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 07:53 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:43:35AM EDT, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:24 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > > > And let us know what kind of driver you are using. > > > > I have video=atyfb:1400x1050 in my grub boot command. > > > > The card is a mach64. > > > > This has to be a bug if your atyfb can't even show the console colors > properly. I'll CC some people. Thank you for your interest. > Can you post your dmesg and fbset -i? Here's the output of fbset -i: mode "1400x1050-60" # D: 107.701 MHz, H: 63.804 kHz, V: 59.853 Hz geometry 1400 1050 1400 5980 8 timings 9285 128 48 13 0 112 3 accel true rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0 endmode Frame buffer device information: Name : ATY Mach64 Address : 0xfd000000 Size : 8384512 Type : PACKED PIXELS Visual : PSEUDOCOLOR XPanStep : 8 YPanStep : 1 YWrapStep : 0 LineLength : 1400 MMIO Address: 0xfc000000 MMIO Size : 2048 Accelerator : ATI Mach64GT What does the rgba line mean? As to dmesg, could you be a bit more specific? I don't want to spam the list with unrelated material. Would you want the dmesg log immediately after a (re)boot? If you need the entire dmesg, I'll put it up some place on the web, hopefully tomorrow. > If you're using a recent kernel, try tinkering with linux 2.6.20 .. which is pretty recent? > /sys/module/vt/parameters/default_blu|default_grn|default_red Hmm .. I don't seem to have anything called default_blu on this machine and no vt directory in the /sys/module tree. Would this be a clue? > The above will show you the colors of the console palette, which you can > also customize anytime. Interesting. When I have the time I would like to change the default colors to something a bit more interesting -- both in the console and in xterm for the sake of applications that do not support 256 colors. Thanks, cga |