Alpha onboard PCI VGA console color issue.

Hello 'alpha' / 'misc'

Alpha console color question.

I got a DS20E 833 uniprocessor Alpha with onboard PCI VGA
( vga0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "3D Labs Oxygen
GVX1" rev 0x01 )

Running 4.1-GENERIC and have seen this since oBSD 3.8 when I
began running 
oBSD on the unit.
(nearly 2 years ago, wow!)

OK my question is:

Is there any one else running OpenBSD on an alpha in VGA
console mode with 
wscons,
and have when in multi-user mode, the console running with a
blue 
background?
The Blue background is present in all wscons displays.

>From MacPPC, and i386, Kernel Messages show up with Blue
Background 
highlighting, and the background is black with nominal grey
test.
But on alpha, the background is always Blue, and may be
triggered to black 
when running some utilities like vi.

However even with the black background, the blue returns.
and other 
highlights (bold text) do not appear.

I would like to know in what direction I can look for the
background color 
settings when wscons sets up the displays. There may be an
update for the 
color palette that can be tested.

Any pointers would help.

-sean

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On 7/25/07, Sean Kennedy <woodentuliphotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello 'alpha' / 'misc'
>
> Alpha console color question.
>
> I got a DS20E 833 uniprocessor Alpha with onboard PCI
VGA
> ( vga0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "3D Labs Oxygen
GVX1" rev 0x01 )
>
> Running 4.1-GENERIC and have seen this since oBSD 3.8
when I began running
> oBSD on the unit.
> (nearly 2 years ago, wow!)
>
> OK my question is:
>
> Is there any one else running OpenBSD on an alpha in
VGA console mode with
> wscons,
> and have when in multi-user mode, the console running
with a blue
> background?
> The Blue background is present in all wscons displays.
>
> From MacPPC, and i386, Kernel Messages show up with
Blue Background
> highlighting, and the background is black with nominal
grey test.
> But on alpha, the background is always Blue, and may be
triggered to black
> when running some utilities like vi.
>
> However even with the black background, the blue
returns. and other
> highlights (bold text) do not appear.
>
> I would like to know in what direction I can look for
the background color
> settings when wscons sets up the displays. There may be
an update for the
> color palette that can be tested.
>
> Any pointers would help.
>

This is a known bug in wscons on alpha with VGA cards that
has not
been identified yet.