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Hello,

> > I've noticed on a few of my vesafb test machines that in 8bpp
> > paletted mode, the console text colour is a very dark grey. It seems
> > that this is because I use rasops_cmap to initialize an "ANSI
> > colourmap", and the definition of ``white'' is as follows:
> >
> >         0xc7, 0xc7, 0xc7, /* white - XXX too dim? */

Hmm, >75% brightness doesn't sound /that/ dark.

> > If I override this value in vesafb to something higher, let's say {
> > 0xdf, 0xdf, 0xdf }, then the text is actually readable. I've also
> > heard reports of other users of rasops that have similar problems
> > with the default text colour being too dim. In my experience though,
> > not all VESA devices are nearly as dim.

Ah well, it would be nice if we all had calibrated colour output...

> > Is there any reason to not just bump the values in
> > sys/dev/rasops/rasops.c:rasops_cmap?

Not sure, maybe. As long as it's significantly darker than 0xffffff.

> Or should hw drivers simply work around this?

Definitely not.

> > If the latter, a driver like vesafb would have no way of knowing as
> > different VESA implementations appear to behave differently.

Exactly.

> It seems like it should probably default to the standard VGA colors,
> because that's what folks are used to, I think.

Sounds reasonable.

> I override the colors in my system to use black on white text anyway.
> :-)

Who doesn't? *duck*

have fun
Michael

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