Re: Green console on Dell flat panel 153 monitor

[Eric <kellybelly@xxxxxxx>]

Disregard, just read the man page. Figured it out.

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Eric wrote:

> On Thu, 3 May 2007 19:53:47 -0700 (PDT)
> Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> > :The green tint goes away after I start X, and when I close X and go back
> > :into console, the console is the normal black and white.  Its not a
> > :hardware issue, since the problem doesnt replicate in other BSD's (other
> > :than Free) or in Slackware or DOS.
> >
> >     That is really odd.  Well, we do inherit FreeBSD's console driver so
> >     it makes sense to some degree.  But green?  Well... before DPMS there
> >     was a monitor standard for green-channel shutdown, for screen savers.
> >     Maybe its related to that?   I don't know, it's weird.
> >
> >     Try setting the video mode with vidcontrol, without going into X,
> >     and see if that clears it up.
> >
> > 					-Matt
> > 					Matthew Dillon
> > 					<dillon@backplane.com>
> Is there a way to set vidcontrol during start-up?  I played with it using VMWare but after rebooting it goes back to the old video mode.  If the same happens with a regular hard drive install I don't think it will solve the issue.
>
> --
> Eric <kellybelly@gwi.net>