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From: Alastair Hogge <agh@riseup.net>
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Subject: Re: Wayland Is Coming
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 02:32:36 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 11 May 2024 00:10:17 -0400, Winston wrote:

> From my limited experimentation, it's the color map that's left messed
> up so badly that "white" is rendered as a dark grey that's pretty much
> indistinguishable from black.  If you're at a command line prompt (such
> as from display suspension), try "vidcontrol yellow blue".  It won't
> actually do yellow and blue because the color map is messed up, but, for
> me, it switches to two colors different enough to be readable.
> 
> vidcontrol has 16 color combinations.  In my testing when things are
> messed up, 0-7 are alike and useless.  8-15 are also alike but readable
> ("yellow blue" is #14).  Your results may differ.

Thanks for the tip, will give it a shot next this happens.

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