Hi Geert,
On 16/02/22 21:24, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
The atafb driver references a 'linux/tools/hardware.txt' file for a
description of the Videl registers. Does anyone still have a copy of
that file?
At least full-history-linux doesn't have it.
Might be a reference to the old FTP archive at Erlangen then ...
Failing that - how would I go about setting specific text colours for
the console (or draw a test pattern showing the result of the four
palette entries)?
I typically use fbtest for that.
One more reason to hunt for that in the dino age package archives :-)
I also have a script to show the 16 colors (assumed there are 16):
#!/bin/bash
printf "\e[7m"
printf "\e[30m BLACK \n"
printf "\e[31m RED \n"
printf "\e[32m GREEN \n"
printf "\e[33m YELLOW \n"
printf "\e[34m BLUE \n"
printf "\e[35m MAGENTA \n"
printf "\e[36m CYAN \n"
printf "\e[37m WHITE \n"
printf "\e[1m"
printf "\e[30m BLACK \n"
printf "\e[31m RED \n"
printf "\e[32m GREEN \n"
printf "\e[33m YELLOW \n"
printf "\e[34m BLUE \n"
printf "\e[35m MAGENTA \n"
printf "\e[36m CYAN \n"
printf "\e[37m WHITE \n"
printf "\e[0m"
Thanks, that ought to do - I vaguely remembered there should be control
sequences to set colour (having worked on VT100 and VT2xx emulators,
though not the actual hardware terminals) but wasn't too sure.
Cheers,
Michael
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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