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From: "Rafael Fernández López" <info@××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with font-color and fbsplash
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:00:08
Message-Id: 434819A1.7010203@maestroprogramador.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with font-color and fbsplash by Holly Bostick
1 Holly Bostick wrote:
2 > Rafael Fernández López schreef:
3 >
4 >>Rafael Fernández López wrote:
5 >>
6 >>
7 >>>Hi,
8 >>>
9 >>>I'm using fbsplash for cool booting. I'm working on my own themes,
10 >>>but I've noticed that it doesn't matter what I put on the
11 >>>variable fgcolor or bgcolor, because it will do nothing.
12 >>>
13 >>>Always console color will be GRAY, it doesn't matter if I set on my
14 >>>1024x768.cfg (for example) fgcolor=8 (white).
15 >>>
16 >>>Thanks, Rafael Fernández.
17 >>
18 >>
19 >>I don't think is a kernel issue, because emerge and so on can show
20 >>colors (green, red, and so on...).
21 >>
22 >
23 >
24 > What I'm wondering is just exactly where is "white" set to equal "8"?
25 >
26 > I suspect that splash doesn't know what "8" means, so it's using the
27 > default color (which is probably gray).
28 >
29 > What you're talking about sounds much more like terminal settings
30 > (~/.Xresources settings) rather than splash configuration (from looking
31 > at a random config file in /etc/splash).
32 >
33 > What configuration file are you using, and what does it say?
34 >
35 > Holly
36
37 Well, you only have to go to http://www.bootsplash.org, in the section
38 "Config files", because I'm editing "1024x768.cfg" of a theme... and
39 you'll see what means 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8... in fgcolor and bgcolor variables.
40
41 Thanks,
42 Rafael Fernández.
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