Re: Dark fonts in console

[Kent West]

Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote:

Kent West wrote:

After upgrading a couple of my sid boxes (to 2.6.3-1-k7), after the 
boot I find that the console fonts suddenly turn dark just before 
getting to the login screen. It's like the brightness on the monitor 
suddenly gets dropped down to 20%; not so dark you can't read the 
fonts, but dark enough to strain your eyes. Brightness levels in X 
seem fine; it only affects consoles.

I temporarily disabled /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh (by putting 
"exit 0" as the first executable line in that script), and the screen 
stayed normal until I was able to log in. Sometime after that I found 
the consoles were again dark, but I don't know the exact sequence of 
events.

Google was less than enlightening (either me, or my consoles :-) ).

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Man setterm.
Kenneth.

That looked promising, thanks! But unfortunately, it didn't solve the 
problem. But it did give me a new clue.

I can set some attribute, say "setterm -blink on" or "setterm bold", 
that attribute will kick in (and the bold helps, but only marginally), 
but as soon as I execute a command like "ls", that attribute goes away 
back to what it was before.

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Kent
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