Have the Linux kernel set a new VGA palette for the first 16 colors.
The new values reduce the saturation (white component) and therefore
increase contrast.

Already posted once: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/15/149

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>

 vt.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/char/vt.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -927,12 +927,12 @@ unsigned char color_table[] = { 0, 4, 2,
 				       8,12,10,14, 9,13,11,15 };
 
 /* the default colour table, for VGA+ colour systems */
-int default_red[] = {0x00,0xaa,0x00,0xaa,0x00,0xaa,0x00,0xaa,
-    0x55,0xff,0x55,0xff,0x55,0xff,0x55,0xff};
-int default_grn[] = {0x00,0x00,0xaa,0x55,0x00,0x00,0xaa,0xaa,
-    0x55,0x55,0xff,0xff,0x55,0x55,0xff,0xff};
-int default_blu[] = {0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0xaa,0xaa,0xaa,0xaa,
-    0x55,0x55,0x55,0x55,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff};
+int default_red[] =
+{0x00,0xaa,0x00,0xaa,0x00,0xaa,0x00,0xaa,0x55,0xff,0x00,0xff,0x00,0xff,0x00,0xff};
+int default_grn[] =
+{0x00,0x00,0xaa,0x55,0x00,0x00,0xaa,0xaa,0x55,0x00,0xff,0xff,0x00,0x00,0xff,0xff};
+int default_blu[] =
+{0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x90,0xaa,0xaa,0xaa,0x55,0x00,0x00,0x00,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff};
 
 module_param_array(default_red, int, NULL, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
 module_param_array(default_grn, int, NULL, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
#<EOF>

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