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I have been trying to sort out a problem for the last couple of days. During boot my start up messages show up as white on a black background. This was usually how any of the alt-f1 to alt-f6 virtual consoles worked for me with directories and certain system files being shown in the standard colors (I guess,blue for directories etc) I don't know what I've done wrong or altered but as soon as X has started if I switch to a virtual console it's like looking at a dirty grey font on a dark background that I can barely see. The other colours are present but my prompt is this washed out grey colour. Similarly dmesg shows everything in this colour instead of plain white. If I use a terminal from within X, gnome for example everything is ok. I need to get this sorted out so I can just have a nice crisp white readable font again but I can't find the relevant file. I don't know if it's the X server overwriting something (but I thought the tty was independant of it) because it only changes once X has started. I've looked on google about problems with blank consoles because of the wrong vga option in grub but mine isn't blank just this nasty muted colour. The font type and resolution itself if fine. I tried dpkg-reconfigure (something to do with the font) which one bug relating to usplash suggested but didn't solve it. Pointers/advice appreciated. Ray -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html