On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:39:53PM -0500, Mouse wrote: > NetBSD/amd64, 9.1. > > What controls the colours used for console text output before wscons > takes over? When I build a kernel with WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_GREEN and no > WS_KERNEL_BG, I see green on black, both before and after the switch > from text mode to text-in-graphics mode. WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_BLACK and > WS_KERNEL_BG=WSCOL_BLACK, and both are black-on-black. > > But WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_LIGHT_BROWN (I wanted yellow, that looks like > the closeset available approximation) and WS_KERNEL_BG=WSCOL_BLUE? > Once wscons switches, everything is as I would expect - but, before > that, it's white on black! > > So there's clearly something I don't understand going on. What?
That's all wscons; drmkms taking over isn't the same step as wscons taking over. But anyway: my guess is that you can't use the bright colors. I vaguely recall some issue with that long ago... -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
