From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 5 14:20:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC6337B719 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:20:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f25MKTA12074; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:20:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3AA40C0B.315C2E86@penix.org> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:20:14 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Paul Halliday Subject: Re: http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/scterm.patch Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 05-Mar-01 Paul Halliday wrote: > > You are not seriously thinking of correcting this are you? As I said earlier, it's not the 100% correct fix, but it is better than nothing. :) FreeBSD strives to look the same on all platforms, and this is an actual "feature" of SRM in that it screws up the VGA palette. If someone wishes to hack libdialog to use different colors on the alpha explicitly, that is another ball of wax. > Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> >> >It would be nice to have the sysinstall colors right for >> >4.3-RELEASE... >> >> Hear hear! >> >> Though I have to say... I was starting to rely on this "feature" as a >> way of quickly telling the alpha test box from the x86 test box on our >> console switch. ;-) > > As I rely on it for the same purposes. > >> >> - Jordan >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > -- > Paul H. > ============================================================================ > Don't underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. > Brute force is the last resort of the incompetent. > GPG Key fingerprint: 2D7C A7E2 DB1F EA5F 8C6F D5EC 3D39 F274 4AA3 E8B9 > Web: http://www3.sympatico.ca/transmogrify > Public Key available here: http://www3.sympatico.ca/transmogrify/dp.txt > ============================================================================ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message