RE: changing colors on linux framebuffer consoles --my mistake

[Rick Engebretson]

An earlier posting of mine said the SuSE 8.0, 8.1, (?etc) default 
"linux" console TERM did not include ccc in terminfo. While this is 
true, it was misleading.

SuSE installs using RPMs and the "linux" TERM entry for the terminfo db 
is installed with the ncurses package. This "linux" TERM does not have ccc.

However, the SuSE terminfo package installs other linux TERM entries. 
These include; "linux-c" and "linux-c-nc". These TERMs do include color. 
Eric Raymond's terminfo source can be found in 
/usr/share/doc/packages/ncurses .

So SuSE installs things differently, but still quite completely.

The terminfo source and infocmp both show the "linux-c*" TERMs add 
(besides color) the "initc=***" entry referred to earlier. I don't know 
what this is about, but as with the linux console driver itself, I 
suspect opportunity :-)

As an aside, besides the framebuffer console and X server, OpenGL 
hardware acceleration is available on SuSE 8.1. The nVidia driver is 
tricky, but the MatroxG200 driver is easy. Quite an interface.

Thanks,
Rick.