Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:30:57 +0100 | Subject | Re: console color code location? | From | "Marco d'Itri" <> |
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On Nov 02, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
>D'oh. There is _one_ place where you can't control it with setterm - >initial messages upon boot. Dunno why it might be needed, but anyway: >paletter sits in color_table[], default_{red,grn,blu}[], colors are set in >vc_init() (all in drivers/char/console.c). But really, what's the point of >that exercise? Use setterm in rc scripts and there you go. It's not like >you were going to see boot messages that often... I use this hack to colorize kernel messages.
--- printk.c.orig Tue Aug 10 13:03:03 1999 +++ printk.c Tue Aug 10 13:09:40 1999 @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ #include <asm/uaccess.h> +extern int fg_console; /* linux/tty.h */ +#include <linux/console_struct.h> /* vc_cons */ +#define attr (vc_cons[fg_console].d->vc_attr) /*drivers/char/console_macros.h*/ + #define LOG_BUF_LEN (16384) static char buf[1024]; @@ -274,11 +278,14 @@ } if (msg_level < console_loglevel && console_drivers) { struct console *c = console_drivers; + unsigned char s_attr = attr; + attr |= 0x08; while(c) { if ((c->flags & CON_ENABLED) && c->write) c->write(c, msg, p - msg + line_feed); c = c->next; } + attr = s_attr; } if (line_feed) msg_level = -1; -- ciao, Marco
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