Re: cursing my yboot'd Lombard
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Chad Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:20:44PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Ah, that's another possible approach: initialize the palette such that
> > inverting the pixel value inverts the color.
> >
> > But I see one problem with that: how to know you're in 16-color text console
> > emulation mode or not? You don't want to mess with other palette entries when
> > e.g. running X.
>
> I suspect he means to set the bootloader (yaboot) to initialize those
> values.
But once you ran e.g. X, the problem may reappear.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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