Samuel Thibault, on Tue 17 Nov 2015 10:07:37 +0100, wrote: > Aura Kelloniemi, on Tue 17 Nov 2015 10:23:33 +0200, wrote: > > I could not get the blink attribute working on Linux console. Traditionally > > it > > changed the background colour to be bright, as the bold attribute does for > > the > > foreground colour. > > The background color can not be made bright, only the foreground can > (and only when loading a 256-glyph font, not 512-glyph). That's a > hardware limitation in VGA boards.
Of course I should have checked what I was saying. As Dave says, foreground can always be made bright, but background can not, and it's the blink capability which is lost when loading more than 256 glyphs. Samuel _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
