mastering the console & gpm mouse management

Hello all, I'd like to know the tricks available in the unix console - I mean raw console, no Xterm or whataver X console. One exemple: a lot of you do some screen output copy in their messages. Copy & paste, sort of... How do you do that ? Thanks to the General Purpose Mouse daemon I have a funny

Re: console vga mode

> I want a higher console resolution, therefore I use vga=6 as a kerneloption. > During system boot the resolution is set to the higher mode and then, > just before the system is sone boting, the console resolution switches > back to the default. Actually what happens is that the default console

colors in the Debian console /services

Hello all, I'm using Sarge and just added an unstable reference to my sources.list which upgraded all my packages recently. So maybe I should considere I'm running a Sid (?). I just turned to Debian after a Redhat / Mandrake short initiation. Anyway, I'm a bit desapointed that I don't have all th

Re: dhclient: how to fill the dhclient.lease data file ?

> my `/var/lib/dhclient.lease' file is obsolutely empty. > I tried to figure out how it can be filled, > but I found nothing: > any idea ? Dhclient is a DHCP client. Its role is to send a request for an IP adress, which is given by a DHCP server for a certain time (in general about 6 hours). After

Re: character fonts in Bash terminal

> The safest bet is trying to use the Vesa framebuffer support, the only > drawback is the vertical resolution stuck at 60 Hz. I don't have at > hand the list of code to choose the resolution, anyway try adding > "vga=791" in the kernel boot options to have 1024x768 (IIRC). > > I've tried this be

Unidentified subject!

Hello all, I'm a Linux newbie. Been trying RedHat, Fedora, Mandrake distros and finally thought of something more serious so here I am. So far I was used to go for an Ext3 filesystem for my 'root' and 'home' partitions. Very convenient, as I don't know a lot about the other exotic filesystems av