Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-23 Thread 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 > pres

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-23 Thread 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

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-23 Thread 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,

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-22 Thread 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

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-22 Thread 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 th

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-22 Thread 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 [

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-21 Thread 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

1999-07-21 Thread 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

1999-07-20 Thread 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

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-20 Thread 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?)

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-20 Thread 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

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-20 Thread 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 se

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-19 Thread 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? ___ _ _ _ _ / _ \| \ | |

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-19 Thread 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? begin:vcard n:Bauman;Carl tel;fax:(210) 592-2027 tel;work:(210) 592-4018 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Ultramar