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PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:41 am    Post subject: ditching Sun screen defaults Reply with quote

ok i've had gentoo running soundly on my Ultra5 for about 6 months now, so i guess i decided im keeping it.

one thing i haven't figured out:
linux boots up with the old fancy black font on white command line screen like the original Solaris install had (=lousy framebuffer, screen fragments, and white screensaver). how do i get that back to the normal linux white text on black? it worked that way by default on my first install, but i screwed that up, started over from scratch and got the white instead. is that a SILO config?

X and openbox are installed and run great, but 99% of the time i have it in command line which is quite eye straining the way it is
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You'll want to enable framebuffer support for the ATI Mach64 cards in your kernel config. That should provide the results you want.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok thanks, i have the newer sparc sources so it's a good time for a recompile
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

update: success

thanks Weeve, lookin' good now
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Glad to hear it works :D
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