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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/console')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c index 88bd8ef56fd..bb4ea50b54a 100644 --- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c +++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c @@ -247,9 +247,26 @@ static inline int get_color(struct vc_data *vc, struct fb_info *info, case 2: /* * Scale down 16-colors to 4 colors. Default 4-color palette - * is grayscale. + * is grayscale. However, simply dividing the values by 4 + * will not work, as colors 1, 2 and 3 will be scaled-down + * to zero rendering them invisible. So empirically convert + * colors to a sane 4-level grayscale. */ - color /= 4; + switch (color) { + case 0: + color = 0; /* black */ + break; + case 1 ... 6: + color = 2; /* white */ + break; + case 7 ... 8: + color = 1; /* gray */ + break; + default: + color = 3; /* intense white */ + break; + } + break; case 3: /* * Last 8 entries of default 16-color palette is a more intense |