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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 2013 07:56:06 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=E9?= <olivier@cochard.me>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   How to display 256 colors on the vga console shell ?
Message-ID:  <CA%2Bq%2BTcr8yWjfX_3%2BGt8uieXr=5DEH5LLpesTz1x1zVJ11UZkXw@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,

I'm trying to display 256 colors on my vga console but didn't reach to
display more than 16 colors.
I'm using this perl script for my test:
http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/_media/unix/256colors2.pl

I'm using -current (r253755) with the default xterm for all ttyv.
I've tried different vidcontrol mode (MODE_280, MODE 279, MODE_261)
but still 16 colors for each try.
The splash screen and the screen saver (rain_saver.ko) are able to
display more than 16 colors on my laptop but why not the console ?

Thanks,

Olivier



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