Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Thomas J. Hamman]

On 24-Jul-99 Andy Goth wrote:
>> Ahhh well, upgrade ;) You can get a better display with vga=ask at lilo,
>> but it was just a suggestion.
> 
> On the computer running Mandrake (pray I get it back unharmed!), "lilo"
> wouldn't run since it complained that the kernel didn't support VGA mode
> presetting.  I couldn't configure LILO until I simply removed the
> vga=___ line from lilo.conf.
> 
> This was with Mandrake 6.0.

Do you have the newest updated lilo package?  I think I saw something on the
list about the updated lilo package fixing that.


-Tom

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Andy Goth]

> Ahhh well, upgrade ;) You can get a better display with vga=ask at lilo,
> but it was just a suggestion.

On the computer running Mandrake (pray I get it back unharmed!), "lilo"
wouldn't run since it complained that the kernel didn't support VGA mode
presetting.  I couldn't configure LILO until I simply removed the
vga=___ line from lilo.conf.

This was with Mandrake 6.0.

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Axalon]

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote:

> > In the sense that it is an ansi drawing program yes, I'd say all
> > similarity ends there. It has a much larger working area, allowing for all
> > those awesome pics you'll find linked there also.
> > 
> > As always, your Framebuffer console advocate, I recommend viewing these
> > via console running in atleast 1280x1024x24 for maximum plesure :)
> 
> Uhhh... no can do!
> 
> I have 1MB video ram, and my monitor can display 800x600, or 1024x768
> interlaced.
> 

Ahhh well, upgrade ;) You can get a better display with vga=ask at lilo,
but it was just a suggestion.

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Andy Goth]

> In the sense that it is an ansi drawing program yes, I'd say all
> similarity ends there. It has a much larger working area, allowing for all
> those awesome pics you'll find linked there also.
> 
> As always, your Framebuffer console advocate, I recommend viewing these
> via console running in atleast 1280x1024x24 for maximum plesure :)

Uhhh... no can do!

I have 1MB video ram, and my monitor can display 800x600, or 1024x768
interlaced.

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Axalon]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote:

> > http://www.acid.org
> > 
> > doing ansi by hand is a long drawn out proccess i personaly do not enjoy.
> 
> I'm downloading it now.
> 
> Is it anything like TheDraw?
> 

In the sense that it is an ansi drawing program yes, I'd say all
similarity ends there. It has a much larger working area, allowing for all
those awesome pics you'll find linked there also. 

As always, your Framebuffer console advocate, I recommend viewing these
via console running in atleast 1280x1024x24 for maximum plesure :)

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[darkknight]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote:
> > Eh, personaly i'd have just installed aciddraw onto my dosemu image ;)
> 
> Aciddraw?
> 
> And what does dosemu have to do with this?

Well, Acid Draw is a dos program and I bet Axalon dos not waste space on his
machine with dos or windoze :)

John Love

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Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Andy Goth]

> http://www.acid.org
> 
> doing ansi by hand is a long drawn out proccess i personaly do not enjoy.

I'm downloading it now.

Is it anything like TheDraw?

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Andy Goth]

> Eh, personaly i'd have just installed aciddraw onto my dosemu image ;)

Aciddraw?

And what does dosemu have to do with this?

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Axalon]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote:

> > > > Yes.  Run kdmconfig as root and there is a "Background" tab.  You should
> > > > be able to change the background there.
> > >
> > > How about changing the penguin logo in the text-based login?  Is there a
> > > text file for the login message?  How are color codes set--by ANSI?
> > 
> > Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and /etc/issue*. yes it's ansi
> 
> Thanks.  I just got done doing battle with DOS.  I was victorious, and I
> was able to overcome the fact that the DOS HELP command doesn't support
> saving copies of the documents to disk.  Hehehe.  I renamed QBASIC.HLP
> to QBASIC.BAK and HELP.HLP (or DOS.HLP?) to QBASIC.HLP, and then I
> started Qbasic and searched for hel on Config.  I browsed through the
> links to finally wind up with ANSI.SYS/Syntax.  I clipped out the part
> that covers colors and cursor relocation, saved it to disk, touched it
> up, and printed it.
> 
> Now I have a nice reference!  I can email it to all who ask for it.
> 
> What happens if I use high-bit characters?  I'd like to do a cool text
> mode graphic, but the standard text characters are a bit limiting.
> 
> By the way, I got the reference so I could make a snazzy motd.
> 
> If I want to make it truly pretty, I suppose I have to edit the login
> command's source code so that it does whatever I want.  But that's too
> much work.  For now.
> 

Eh, personaly i'd have just installed aciddraw onto my dosemu image ;)

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Mike Abney]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, you wrote:
>
> Thanks.  I just got done doing battle with DOS.  I was victorious,
> and I was able to overcome the fact that the DOS HELP command
> doesn't support saving copies of the documents to disk.  Hehehe.
> I renamed QBASIC.HLP to QBASIC.BAK and HELP.HLP (or DOS.HLP?) to
> QBASIC.HLP, and then I started Qbasic and searched for hel on
> Config. I browsed through the links to finally wind up with
> ANSI.SYS/Syntax.  I clipped out the part that covers colors and
> cursor relocation, saved it to disk, touched it up, and printed it.
> 
> Now I have a nice reference!  I can email it to all who ask for it.

Hey, how about uploading it somewhere and sending out the link to
the list. If you can't do that, please send it to me, at least --
I'll see if I can find a home for it.


~Mike

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Andy Goth]

> > > Yes.  Run kdmconfig as root and there is a "Background" tab.  You should
> > > be able to change the background there.
> >
> > How about changing the penguin logo in the text-based login?  Is there a
> > text file for the login message?  How are color codes set--by ANSI?
> 
> Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and /etc/issue*. yes it's ansi

Thanks.  I just got done doing battle with DOS.  I was victorious, and I
was able to overcome the fact that the DOS HELP command doesn't support
saving copies of the documents to disk.  Hehehe.  I renamed QBASIC.HLP
to QBASIC.BAK and HELP.HLP (or DOS.HLP?) to QBASIC.HLP, and then I
started Qbasic and searched for hel on Config.  I browsed through the
links to finally wind up with ANSI.SYS/Syntax.  I clipped out the part
that covers colors and cursor relocation, saved it to disk, touched it
up, and printed it.

Now I have a nice reference!  I can email it to all who ask for it.

What happens if I use high-bit characters?  I'd like to do a cool text
mode graphic, but the standard text characters are a bit limiting.

By the way, I got the reference so I could make a snazzy motd.

If I want to make it truly pretty, I suppose I have to edit the login
command's source code so that it does whatever I want.  But that's too
much work.  For now.

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Axalon]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote:

> > Yes.  Run kdmconfig as root and there is a "Background" tab.  You should
> > be able to change the background there.
> 
> How about changing the penguin logo in the text-based login?  Is there a
> text file for the login message?  How are color codes set--by ANSI?


Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and /etc/issue*. yes it's ansi

Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Andy Goth]

> Yes.  Run kdmconfig as root and there is a "Background" tab.  You should
> be able to change the background there.

How about changing the penguin logo in the text-based login?  Is there a
text file for the login message?  How are color codes set--by ANSI?
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Re: [newbie] Login Background

[Carl J. Bauman]

Yes.  Run kdmconfig as root and there is a "Background" tab.  You should
be able to change the background there.

Trevor Wilson wrote:

> Can you change the background on the login screen?


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