Re: Setting colors on atyfb framebuffer console.

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:24 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> I just had to replace the display on an old laptop and I'm trying to
> figure out if color rendering is correct.
> 
> I tried setterm to set the background to black and foreground to white
> on the linux console but this doesn't seem to be doing anything.
> 
> I still have what looks to be pale gray text on a dark gray background.
> 
> Is there any way I can permanently change this to black & white?
> 

Try setterm -blink on | off

And let us know what kind of driver you are using.

Tony



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