Re: headless glass console looses colours on reboot

2015-04-24 Thread Craig Skinner
On 2015-04-23 Thu 08:11 AM |, Nick Holland wrote: On 04/23/15 04:34, Craig Skinner wrote: I haven't seen this in a while (and I'm trusting my memory more than I should), but on some older systems, back in the day of monochrome VGA monitors, the monochrome monitor only connected to the green

Re: headless glass console looses colours on reboot

2015-04-23 Thread Craig Skinner
On 2015-04-20 Mon 11:18 AM |, Craig Skinner wrote: OK folks, Same results on a 3rd box with 5.6 release. Here's info on what various termcap entries produce: $ grep ^ttyC /etc/ttys | grep on$ ttyC0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt220 on ttyC1 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600

Re: headless glass console looses colours on reboot

2015-04-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/23/15 04:34, Craig Skinner wrote: ... Is there something in the boot process that enables console colours if a monitor is connected? on some video cards, yes. I haven't seen this in a while (and I'm trusting my memory more than I should), but on some older systems, back in the day of

Re: headless glass console looses colours on reboot

2015-04-20 Thread Craig Skinner
OK folks, Same results on a 3rd box with 5.6 release. This machine's dmesg below, if that's of any relevance. On 2015-04-10 Fri 14:12 PM |, Craig Skinner wrote: 2 x i386 boxes, each with 2 serial cables cross connected from com1 to com0 on his neighbour. Normally used without monitor, nor

Re: headless glass console looses colours on reboot

2015-04-14 Thread Alexei Malinin
On 04/10/15 20:19, Craig Skinner wrote: On 2015-04-10 Fri 17:06 PM |, Alexei Malinin wrote: ttyC0 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 pccon on I use this: ttyC0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc pccon on secure ^^ Thanks Alexei. I've changed to

Re: headless glass console looses colours on reboot

2015-04-14 Thread Craig Skinner
On 2015-04-14 Tue 14:56 PM |, Alexei Malinin wrote: No change to missing colours on boot without monitor present. Hello, Craig. Could you try the following (vga(4)): /usr/sbin/wsconscfg -d -F 1 /usr/sbin/wsconscfg -t 80x25bf -e vt100 1 and compare the results for ttyC0 (16

Re: headless glass console looses colours on reboot

2015-04-11 Thread Craig Skinner
On 2015-04-10 Fri 14:12 PM |, Craig Skinner wrote: 2 x i386 boxes, each with 2 serial cables cross connected from com1 to com0 on his neighbour. Normally used without monitor, nor keyboard. When ssh'ing, colours work fine (man pages, vim, mutt, lynx, etc.) After connecting a spare VGA