Re: Is it possible to have 256 colors in Emacs on framebuffer-enabled tty

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: zwz <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:33:23 +0800
> 
> 
> I use Emacs both in GUI mode and text mode. In text mode, however, it
> only shows 8 colors (M-x list-color-display). So I create a consistent
> color-theme for Emacs in both modes. 
> 
> But one thing still bothers me. In my system, framebuffer is enabled (by
> KMS) and fbterm is adopted as the terminal, in which "tput colors" gives
> 256, and I can watch movies on tty with mplayer. However, in Emacs, only
> 8 colors available.
> 
> I googled and found 
> http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/issues/detail?id=44,
> in which one comment suggest the issue root in Emacs.
> 
> Is it right

No.

> or is there any way to have 256 colors in Emacs (tty)?

First, your terminal should report to Emacs that it has 256 colors.
Does it?