> I've tried using setterm...it doesn't take (permanently anyway). In
> FreeBSD, you can set teh default colors in the syscons.c (defaults are
> FG_LIGHTGREY || BG_BLACK....I set them to FG_WHITE || BG BLACK) file and
> recompile the kernel, so that all programs use those colors by
> default. I'm assuming that this is set somewhere in the console driver
> code in linux, but I have thus far been unsuccessful in finding where.
>
In console.c, the following gives blue text on white.
def_color = 0x71;
ulcolor = 0x7f;
halfcolor = 0x78;
If you do this you will also probably have to dork with /etc/DIR_COLORS
depending on what your after.
Bob
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