ctrl+alt+f1, login as root, type 'mcc', you then have an ncurses, quasi GUI based, Keyboard controlled version of the control center to do what you describe needs doing.... =)
Cheers
Jason
PS, Please remove your reply to header in your emails, it bungs up the list munging...
pmw57 wrote:
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 06:53, Adrian Robertson wrote:
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:28:35 +1300 Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The debian installer is pretty simple.Not for people that can only point and click :)
Lots of people equate no gui as hard :\
It's not that it's hard. It's that it's harder because many people don't know the names of the programs they use, let alone the cli name for it, or how to find it.
eg. "What browser do you use?" *blank look* "For using the internet and looking at websites" "Uuh, Microsft . . . Office?"
And in my case, I have a linux box with a screen usually running at 1280x1024 with a cable modem and usb mouse. With that background, here's the situation I found myself in yesterday.
I unplugged my linux box and took it around to my folks last night. The monitor wasn't able to display the video resolution I had on there so I had what appeared to be the top left 800x600 of a 1280x1024 workspace, the mouse at the location was a ps/2 so it wasn't responding, and to cap it all I had no internet connection.
Now I'm okay at controlling the gui via the keyboard, but when trying to adjust the display resolution with mandrake control center, you don't appear to be able to navigate it with the keyboard. The standard keyboard controls don't appear to be of any use there. The mouse didn't work because it was previously a usb mouse and now here it's a ps/2, and to cap it all I now don't have a net connection.
My point here is, restricted as I was, how was I supposed to have obtained the knowledge, possibly through gui help or cli info/man, on adjusting the screen resolution and on readjusting the mouse drivers.
