Hi People, I've just joined the list, so my apologies if this question has already been asked. I recently installed RedHat 7.0 on a couple of my systems and have hit a number of strange problems re console colours changing all by themselves (apparently). Whenever I start up X11, the console palette seems to change to somewhat dimmer colours upon exit. This seems to happen to every console, not just the one where I initiated the X11 session. What's more, the cursor disappears, which makes it hard to type (well, at least hard to edit the command line, if that becomes necessary ... which it is for me all the time!). I took a look at /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/console.c and found some code that seems to define what the "default" colours are. When I pulled this out and wrote a small program to output the appropriate escape sequences it appears to generate the same palette that's occurring after exiting X11. I know it's actually doing something, because I tried changing the order of the colours in the code and that changed the colour scheme. What I don't understand is why the console palette starts out being set to something other than this default. I'm sure I could work out the right set of colours and modify my little program to set them. However, this seems like far too much fiddling, and also doesn't fix the fact that the cursor has disappeared. I'm sure I must be missing something. Any ideas? TIA. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
