On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Phil Requirements <simultane...@comcast.net> wrote: >> I don't know when it happened but it must have been during some >> "aptitude upgrade" run lately: My console font turned from white to >> cyan. At first I thought that the red VGA signal had a bad contact, > > I was recently experimenting with framebuffer settings, and when I tried > certain > settings, I got something very similar to what you are describing. > Specifically, > I got the pale green text when I chose a framebuffer setting of a certain bit > depth, and it had the multi-color smeary looking distortion. > > I wanted my framebuffer to be nice because I use some console apps and I > don't always like to run X. I was experimenting with lots of settings. When I > tried 1024x768x24, it looks nice. 1024x768x32 is also nice. > > But when I tried 1024x768x16 or 1024x768x8, the colors were all wrong, and the > main console font was a sickly green color. Not quite cyan, but similar. > > Your framebuffer could have gone on the fritz with your recent update if you > changed from grub-legacy to grub-pc (the new grub). The new grub has a > different > way of setting up framebuffers, you can't use vga=795 any more. > > If you want to try to chase down a new-grub framebuffer problem, try looking > at these: > > /etc/grub/default > GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x32 (or whatever you choose) > GRUB_TERMINAL > update-grub > gfxpayload
Just in case you are running grub2, the /etc/grub/default variables for framebuffer are GRUB_TERMINAL=gfxterm GRUB_GFXMODE=<resolution> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=[<resolution|keep>] There used to be a warning about using "vga=<resolution>" as a GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT or GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX option (it seems to have been removed or my eyes are too slow to see it) and advice to use GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD, but the latter has now been superceded by the above payload variable. Do you still have this font-color problem if you comment out GRUB_GFXMODE and GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX and set "GRUB_TERMINAL=console" (and reboot after running "update-grub")? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j2q6d4219cc1004110635o40c8d5baxc3a4003b3ddf2...@mail.gmail.com
