Markus Kuhn wrote:
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Sorry for intruding but does this mean that the fb mode allows me to use more colors. I went to a lot of trouble to get the ATI framebuffer driver to work at this laptop's native resolution (1400x1050) because anything else was really fuzzy/ugly. I'm quite pleased with the result - and being to display pictures on the console just for fun.. but as far as usefulness..? I assumed that as far as colors go text mode (bash.. vim.. emacs.. elinks/lynx.. etc..) was limited to those 8+8 colors.. Of course it makes things interesting if you can pick you 16 colors from 256 or 32768.. But you would still have only 16 concurrent colors no..?The VGA hardware can either handle 512-char fonts with 8 colours or 256-char fonts with 16 colours (RGBCMYKW x {dark, bright}). You probably try to use a 512-char font with 16 colours, which is not supported by the VGA text-mode hardware.
Perhaps the situation could be handled more gracefully, namely by chosing the wrong (i.e., darker) colour instead of the wrong glyph. (Who coded this?)
Actual solution: use the framebuffer graphics mode instead of the ancient (> 20 years old!!!) VGA hardware text mode with all its amusing restrictions.
Just wondering..
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Markus
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