Below are excerpts from two messages that came through this list in the
last couple days. Enjoy.
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From: Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net> Subject: Re: console color code location? Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:46:36 -0500 (EST)
There's a VGA palette manipulator in ../contrib in the SVGATextMode package, if I recall where I got it, and you can bang on this stuff from userland via something that can lseek /dev/port.
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From: Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat@ees2.oulu.fi> Subject: Re: console color code location? Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:24:17 +0200 (EET)
The kernel (at least 2.0.x) recognizes also magic escape strings, when echoed to screen, change the palette. I don't remember exactly the sequence but something like "<esc>[RRGGBBP" where RR, GG and BB are the primary colors (0x0..0xff) in hex. Possibly [ is actually ] (?). The original palette can be restored with "<esc>[R". (This too is from my faulty memory...)
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