> > I suspect he means to set the bootloader (yaboot) to initialize those > > values. > > But once you ran e.g. X, the problem may reappear.
XFree86 4.01 will save and restore color maps on VT switch when the UseFBDev option is used (see Michel's post). And I don't see any point in not using that option even assuming the X server can handle everything by itself in a sane way. Please don't try to stick specialized code like this into yaboot. This needs to be handled by the framebuffer driver, and there's no reason why it needs to be done before framebuffer init. Michael