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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:30:14 +0100
From:      Florian Nigsch <flo@nigsch.com>
To:        72yan M <freedom@72oot.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Font color
Message-ID:  <20020221113014.A36760@nigsch.com>
In-Reply-To: <02022020552901.72838@c1529030-a.attbi.com>; from freedom@72oot.net on Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:55:29PM -0800
References:  <EOEHJJODFIMKFOCMNABICEACGMAA.selvam@bernama.com> <02022020552901.72838@c1529030-a.attbi.com>

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There's another way to do this, much simpler than recompiling
your kernel.

See vidcontrol(1)

try 'vidcontrol show' to get a list of the colors, choose yours
and then try 'vidcontrol fg bg', for example
'vidcontrol yellow blue' for yellow text on blue background.

bye,
flo

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:55:29PM -0800, 72yan M wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The answer is in the kernel and man syscons(4). Add these options:
> 
> # The following options will let you change the default colors of syscons.
> options 	SC_NORM_ATTR="(FG_GREEN|BG_BLACK)"
> options 	SC_NORM_REV_ATTR="(FG_YELLOW|BG_GREEN)"
> options 	SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR="(FG_RED|BG_BLACK)"
> options 	SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR="(FG_BLACK|BG_RED)"
> 
> The colors that I know of are Black, grey, darkgrey, yellow, lightyellow, 
> red, lightred, lightblue, blue, green, and lightgreen. There should be a list 
> of colors at #/usr/inclide/machine/pc/display.h, but I have never seen it. 
> 
> 72yan M
> 
> > Hi there FreeBSD gurus,
> >
> > I would like to know how to change the terminal font colors to others
> > rather than the normal white?
> > Can this be done ? If so, how can I do it.
> > Some help will be appreciated.
> >
> > Selvam
> >
> >
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