Re: console color code location?

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 1 Nov 1999 18:08:23 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Guest section DW wrote:

>
> > I'm a FreeBSD guy who's new to Linux...and I need to be able to compile my
> > kernel with specific colors (bright white text on a black background).
> > Anywone know where/how this is done in the linux kernel source?
>
> But the console colors are set by the user, possibly using setterm,
> or some other utility. There is no need to do anything at compile time.
> (Is that otherwise in FreeBSD? I can hardly imagine.)

D'oh. There is _one_ place where you can't control it with setterm -
initial messages upon boot. Dunno why it might be needed, but anyway:
paletter sits in color_table[], default_{red,grn,blu}[], colors are set in
vc_init() (all in drivers/char/console.c). But really, what's the point of
that exercise? Use setterm in rc scripts and there you go. It's not like
you were going to see boot messages that often...

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