peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (09/07/90)
I just switched computers, and the new one has a mono VGA display. When I boot up UNIX it comes up in paper mode. How do I change the default display attributes to something easier on my eyes? I've RTFM, and it has been less than informative. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com
tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (09/07/90)
In article <6AQ5OT3@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >I just switched computers, and the new one has a mono VGA display. When I boot >up UNIX it comes up in paper mode. How do I change the default display >attributes to something easier on my eyes? I've RTFM, and it has been less >than informative. Bad mans. No say what UNIX brand he use. Suggest nasty mans check him TERMINFO definition; maybe pick him another term type. Maybe diddle one he using to send different SGR string on startup. Also suggest bad mans check VGA strapping and CRT dip switches to maybe make paperwhite go bye-bye. -- If none of this works, he could put a video camera in front of his monitor, digitize the video picture it sees, feed that into a raster window program and display it on an identical mono VGA setup, which would have the effect of reversing the black and white pixels. -- Alternatively he could stare fixedly at the CRT screen for about thirty seconds, then turn away and gaze at a dark colored wall. Retinal persistence will cause a white-on-black image to appear in front of the wall. -- Or he could put colored gels on the CRT screen to change the image to, say, black-on-mauve or black-on-puce or black-on-teal. -- Where would we be without the net to offer practical advice? :-) -- The genius of you Americans is that you never make ** Tom Neff any clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid ** tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM moves that leave us scratching our heads wondering if we might possibly have missed something. -- Gamel Abdel Nasser
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (09/08/90)
In article <15828@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: > Bad mans. No say what UNIX brand he use. I did in the original, which seems to have been eaten in the renaming. Intel System V/386, Compaq 386/20e. I'm hoping there is a general solution to doing things like changing screen modes and colors for System V/386. > Suggest nasty mans check him TERMINFO definition; maybe pick him another > term type. It's not the term type. It boots part way in white-on-black, then when it clears for the first time (to print "Booting the UNIX system") it comes up in paper mode. There are no straps or switches documented in the manual that I could find, and it runs white-on-black under (ech) DOS. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com