[BRLTTY] Broken colour names

[Samuel Thibault]

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