Re: wscons colors

Hello,

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:47:03 +0100
Ignatios Souvatzis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does anybody operate netbsd-current on a sparc64 with wscons on radeonfb?
> 
> My problem: as soon as console has switched from OpenFirmware to wscons
> during booting, output becomes barely readable.
> 
> Cursor block is bright white, but all text and background colors are
> slightly dissimilar shades of grey.
> 
> (Tried the default black on lightwhite as well as white on black /
> green on black).
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't remember when this worked fine - definitely
> with 5.99.44/45.
> 
> Problem seen with 5.99.47 and 5.99.56.

Works here ( Blade 2500, XVR-100, DVI ):
radeonfb0 at pci4 dev 2 function 0: ATI Technologies Radeon 7000/VE QY
radeonfb0: Video BIOS not present
radeonfb0: No video BIOS, using default clocks
radeonfb0: refclk = 27.000 MHz, refdiv = 12 minpll = 125000, maxpll = 350000
radeonfb0: using static EDID
max_dotclock according to supported modes: 135000
radeonfb0: using static EDID
max_dotclock according to supported modes: 135000
radeonfb0: 32 MB aperture at 0x04000000, 64 KB registers at 0x00100000
radeonfb0: display 0: initial virtual resolution 1280x1024 at 8 bpp
radeonfb0: port 0: physical 1280x1024 60Hz
radeonfb0: port 1: physical 1280x1024 60Hz
wsdisplay0 at radeonfb0 kbdmux 1: console (fb, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
wsdisplay0: screen 1-3 added (fb, vt100 emulation)
drm at radeonfb0 not configured
...

The description sounds like problems I (briefly) had when hacking radeonfb to actually run in 8 bit colour instead of 32bit - are you sure your radeonfb.c is identical to HEAD?

have fun
Michael