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tty console has colours too dark

Bug #158759 reported by Rafael Belmonte on 2007-10-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #118906: Console displays colors incorrectly. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubuntu-base

tty console (out of X session) has some colours too dark, it is hard to see words with this colour, for example, type command 'ls /dev' and you will see.
Also happen when using vim with syntax highligting and "set background dark" option enabled, there are some words in text too dark, very hard to see them.
Really i am not sure if this bug is of ubuntu-base, sorry if it's wrong.

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Dylan Thacker-Smith (dylan-smith) wrote on 2008-07-18:

I noticed this too. I did some searching and found a post at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-435838.html that was helpful.

alanfranz wrote:
> it was a kernel issue. I recompiled from a stock 2.6.20 kernel and solved everything.
>
> Or you could try loading some framebuffer modules along with fbcon. something like
>
>modprobe vga16fb
>modprobe fbcon
>
>you could try "vesafb" instead of vga16fb

I found that fbcon was already loaded by using the command
lsmod | sort

so I loaded vga16fb to fix the problem. The fonts now look different now, but it is very clear and easy to see all the colours now.

I also noticed a similar bug that may be a duplicate:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-tools/+bug/118906

Hope that helps.

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote on 2008-08-17:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 118906, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.