I needed to deactivate any colors on my mono-terminal (mda textmode-card). The main point is to set
TERM=linux-m when working locally. Grepping /etc for TERM I found #TTYTYPE_FILE=/etc/ttytype in /etc/login.defs. I did as noted there (created /etc/ttytype and uncommented the ttytype-line but with no effect, so I inserted TERM=linux-m into /etc/environment and am happy. [...] > > Again: > > How do i tell my system that the _textmode console_ is > > black/white? > > Don't know for sure, but I'd start looking at the terminal > configuration. Looking at the terminfo database, And that did it. Thanks, Karsten! -- Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Netzwerkverwaltung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Forschungsstelle für Ökosystemtechnik Universität Kiel
