Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

2001-05-02 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 1 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. Laurentclick on the desktop icon labled Mandrake Control Center. When the control center has opened it's window (probably after you've supplied

Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

2001-05-02 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 2 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurentput the vga=794 back in your /etc/lilo.conf and uninstall the Aurora RPM from your system. Uhh... Ok... To test console fonts put vga=ask instead of vga=normal or vga=xxx in /etc/lilo.conf. vga=ask will prompt you for the console setting at

Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

2001-05-02 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Laurent Duperval wrote: On 2 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurentput the vga=794 back in your /etc/lilo.conf and uninstall the Aurora RPM from your system. Uhh... Ok... You don't need to uninstall it, just to stop using it. Go through Mandrake control panel, and just turn it off

Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Laurent Duperval wrote: On 1 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. Laurentclick on the desktop icon labled Mandrake Control Center. When the control center has opened it's window

[expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

2001-05-01 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. I want to go back to the good old text screen we used to have in 7.2. The reason is that once I've booted into X, I can no longer acces the console. I want to remove the use of the frame buffer so I can see if the

Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. I want to go back to the good old text screen we used to have in 7.2. The reason is that once I've booted into X, I can no longer acces the console. I want to remove the use of the frame