> I don't know when it happened but it must have been during some > "aptitude upgrade" run lately: My console font turned from white to > cyan. At first I thought that the red VGA signal had a bad contact,
I was recently experimenting with framebuffer settings, and when I tried certain settings, I got something very similar to what you are describing. Specifically, I got the pale green text when I chose a framebuffer setting of a certain bit depth, and it had the multi-color smeary looking distortion. I wanted my framebuffer to be nice because I use some console apps and I don't always like to run X. I was experimenting with lots of settings. When I tried 1024x768x24, it looks nice. 1024x768x32 is also nice. But when I tried 1024x768x16 or 1024x768x8, the colors were all wrong, and the main console font was a sickly green color. Not quite cyan, but similar. Your framebuffer could have gone on the fritz with your recent update if you changed from grub-legacy to grub-pc (the new grub). The new grub has a different way of setting up framebuffers, you can't use vga=795 any more. If you want to try to chase down a new-grub framebuffer problem, try looking at these: /etc/grub/default GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x32 (or whatever you choose) GRUB_TERMINAL update-grub gfxpayload These are just some ideas that I thought might be helpful. Phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
