https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c1 --- Comment #1 from Franck Bourdonnec 2012-08-16 20:01:31 UTC --- (From update of attachment 502602) No flash here. Just the background ans the (unreadable) text. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c3 Michael Chang changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bruno@ioda-net.ch --- Comment #3 from Michael Chang 2012-08-17 08:28:28 UTC --- I think two different approaches we could take 1. Redesign the background image with better contrast 2. Do not use background (GRUB_BACKGROUND) I personally would support #2. As in my testing I found some problems of using GRUB_BACKGROUND for setting that windows background properly. It will not be stretched to fill that window and only a cropped region get displayed. ( I tried to replace that background with what I found in opensuse-art.org, but gave up because can't have a satisfactory result) But once we taking #2, we receive criticism for "ugly black-box showed again". :( Steffen or Bruno, would you have any good idea ? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c5 --- Comment #5 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2012-08-17 11:31:15 CEST --- I'd go for black. At least it's usable then. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c7 --- Comment #7 from Michael Chang 2012-09-12 04:47:56 UTC --- Hi As a temporarily fix, please set text foreground to white instead of default light-gray $ echo "set color_normal=white/black" >> /boot/grub2/custom.cfg Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c9 --- Comment #9 from Michael Chang 2012-09-26 04:24:12 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8)

Setting white text does make it more readable but does not eliminate "photo flash" effect. It does not look pleasant to put it mildly.

What is "photo flash" effect? Would you please elaborate this ? I suppose it's the flash|flickering when closing terminal window. I have no idea where it came from, but it should happen in current upstream and seems not been addressed yet. We currently did not do any change to grub2's theme engine(or via providing our own theme.txt)

Also where light gray for text come from? Grub defaults to white/black, color is not set in theme and when I check immediately after booting, color_normal already had this value. So what makes grub ignore default until explicitly set?

It defaults to light-gray, afaics, at least in the gfxterm terminal (editing) window. #define GRUB_TERM_DEFAULT_NORMAL_COLOR 0x07 #define GRUB_TERM_DEFAULT_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR 0x70 #define GRUB_TERM_DEFAULT_STANDARD_COLOR 0x07 The 0x07 index to the color light-gray in the palette structure. {0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF}, // 0 = black {0x00, 0x00, 0xA8, 0xFF}, // 1 = blue {0x00, 0xA8, 0x00, 0xFF}, // 2 = green {0x00, 0xA8, 0xA8, 0xFF}, // 3 = cyan {0xA8, 0x00, 0x00, 0xFF}, // 4 = red {0xA8, 0x00, 0xA8, 0xFF}, // 5 = magenta {0xA8, 0x54, 0x00, 0xFF}, // 6 = brown {0xA8, 0xA8, 0xA8, 0xFF}, // 7 = light gray {0x54, 0x54, 0x54, 0xFF}, // 8 = dark gray {0x54, 0x54, 0xFE, 0xFF}, // 9 = bright blue {0x54, 0xFE, 0x54, 0xFF}, // 10 = bright green {0x54, 0xFE, 0xFE, 0xFF}, // 11 = bright cyan {0xFE, 0x54, 0x54, 0xFF}, // 12 = bright red {0xFE, 0x54, 0xFE, 0xFF}, // 13 = bright magenta {0xFE, 0xFE, 0x54, 0xFF}, // 14 = yellow {0xFE, 0xFE, 0xFE, 0xFF} // 15 = white Probably that macro not used in some circumstances but I have no idea for that. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c11 Peter McPherson changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mcphrsp@aol.com --- Comment #11 from Peter McPherson 2012-09-28 06:27:09 UTC --- My installation of 12.2 on my main desktop PC was obtained by zypper dup from RC1 and I have this same problem with readability. On my other desktop, I did a fresh install from the x86_64 DVD and the display is fine - white lettering on black background. Hope that helps. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c13 --- Comment #13 from Peter McPherson 2012-09-28 13:31:34 UTC ---

Is it UEFI system? I saw the same on one.

Yes it's a UEFI Gigabyte GA-970A-D3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c15 --- Comment #15 from Michael Chang 2012-10-01 07:36:06 UTC --- Hi, For more information here, we intentionally revert back to use black background in final GM release as a workaround fix for the poor readability issue. It's complicated to explain, but in short that I'd like to apply the two patches in this discussion thread : https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=778350 And either via changing the text color or background image (in theme.txt terminal_c.png) would all work as what we expect. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c17 Torsten Duwe changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |alinm.elena@gmail.com --- Comment #17 from Torsten Duwe 2012-10-11 13:17:22 UTC --- *** Bug 778350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=778350 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c19 --- Comment #19 from Danny van Delft 2012-11-09 13:01:33 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=512673) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=512673) screenshot of a VM console To make the "unreadable" trait clearer, this is a screenshot, not a photo, taken from a KVM/QEMU console. Indeed totally unreadable, at least around the center. The gray-ish circular spots scattered around also make it worse. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c21 Michael Chang changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |maintenance@opensuse.org --- Comment #21 from Michael Chang 2012-11-22 03:52:09 UTC --- Dear maintenance team, Could you please help to review the maintenance request SRID #142326. The green background image is disabled and use mono-colored black. Hi Michael, Thanks, the maintenance request has been created to fix the issue. I didn't notice the change was not in 12.2 update repo. sorry. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c23 --- Comment #23 from Swamp Workflow Management 2012-12-04 13:11:24 UTC --- openSUSE-RU-2012:1603-1: An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Category: recommended (important) Bug References: 776244 CVE References: Sources used: openSUSE 12.2 (src): grub2-2.00-1.19.1 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c25 --- Comment #25 from Michael Catanzaro 2012-12-06 01:52:19 UTC --- My $0.02: I think everyone would prefer the nice green theme, but I also think that unreadable text is a MUCH more serious issue than a black bootloader. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776244#c27 --- Comment #27 from Dino E 2012-12-14 17:11:23 UTC ---

Could this be misunderstanding ..? No. I've installed that patch on one of my machines and I'm very disappointed with it.

it's terminal window (showed with booting message...) will have black background. And it's quite enough to ruin appeal of openSUSE boot process.

I also think that unreadable text is a MUCH more serious issue than a black bootloader. I, personally prefer NOT to see that terminal window AT ALL if boot process is going fine, or at least to see it as much blended with bootloader as possible. So it's clear, that preferences in this area can differ and this patch can be optional at best and by any means it CAN'T be "critical".

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