On 20/04/17 22:43, Programmingkid wrote:
On Apr 20, 2017, at 5:25 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
Here are a couple of fixes that correct the display colors in the Solaris console login screen. It seems that the Solaris drivers assume the foreground and background colors are in different palette entries to those currently used by OpenBIOS causing the console to appear invisible as white text on a white background.
Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk
Mark Cave-Ayland (2): display.fs: fix off-by-one errors in color palette initialisation display.fs: fix palette entries for foreground and background colors
forth/device/display.fs | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
-- 1.7.10.4
Is the color problem with Linux effected by these patches?
It does also seem to fix the color issue within yaboot, although older kernels still appear to use a faint color when switching to the VGA console. Fortunately any improvement is generally better than none ;)
ATB,
Mark.