Very Computer

In the NVRAM on this box I can see two boolean parameters
called "inverse?" and "inverse-screen?". The values of
these addresses can be changed to cause the boot up
screen to appear white text on a black background rather
rather than the default black on white.

being able to do this is important to me as I need to
minimise the brightness/luminesence of the screen due
to the environment in which the box is being used.

I was setting these booleans from the Forth prompt by
using :

true to inverse?
true to inverse-screen?

So on the IPX box i was putting these into the NVRAMRC.

However, on an Ultra 1 with an Sbus TurboGX+ frame buffer
I get a data access error message from OpenBoot when
I try to do this.

Can anybody, anywhere help me with this?  I need some
help fairly urgently.

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Simon Budd

Quote:>In the NVRAM on this box I can see two boolean parameters
>called "inverse?" and "inverse-screen?". The values of
>these addresses can be changed to cause the boot up
>screen to appear white text on a black background rather
>rather than the default black on white.
>being able to do this is important to me as I need to
>minimise the brightness/luminesence of the screen due
>to the environment in which the box is being used.

>I was setting these booleans from the Forth prompt by
>using :

>true to inverse?
>true to inverse-screen?

>So on the IPX box i was putting these into the NVRAMRC.

>However, on an Ultra 1 with an Sbus TurboGX+ frame buffer
>I get a data access error message from OpenBoot when
>I try to do this.

ESC [ q

For the whole deal, see wscons(7).  However, you will stil have a brief
period of black on white, whilst it's booting.  I'm not sure how to do
this from the prom.

P.S.  ESC [ p gets you back to normal!
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