Andrew Hobgood <chaos@strange.net> writes:

> does anyone know how to change the background color to a more soothing
> black?  some of my programs do so via ANSI codes, but screen erases
> inevitably fill the screen with the same painful blue...

Is it the same electric blue that is displayed when the machine boots?
If so, I suspect that we're not setting up the VGA color palette, and
expecting it to be initialized to whatever a PC does.

Actually, looking in src/sys/dev/ic/vga.c, I see a mapping from
ANSI/wscons color codes to VGA color table, and a note that we don't
initialize the color palette (Plus some alpha-specific red/blue
frobbing, but that doesn't seem to be your problem).

(For what it's worth, on a TGA console I have green-on-black for
kernel text and white-on-black for normal text. Works fine.)

        - Nathan