David Rysdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>1) When I boot and the login screen comes up, the screen isn't cleared
>first...in fact, when I logout the screen isn't cleared either. This
>is annoying at best and a security problem at worst (who knows what
>you might have left on the screen when you logged out). How can I
>correct this?
If you use mingetty instead of getty, the screen will be cleared by
default (I prefer this too). Change the lines for the various virtual
consoles to look like:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
(Etc., and season to taste.)
>2) How can I figure out the "code name" for my distribution? I'm
>purposely not revealing what version number I have because I want to
>know how to *find out*--I don't want someone to just say "potato" or
>whatever.
You have to know the mapping. It's this:
1.0 never officially released, due to a premature unofficial release
by a CD distributor
1.1 buzz
1.2 rex
1.3 bo
2.0 hamm
2.1 slink
2.2 potato
2.3? woody (version number undecided - could be 3.0)
If you install the debian-history package, you'll get a more detailed
history of the project.
>3) Non-debian-specific question: I've got a DEC HiNote VP (535) but
>the display is bad. The colors are all "smeared" to the right (I'm
>getting "shadows" of colors that appear to the right of the item
>displayed). This effectively limits me to console mode.
Heh, that sounds familiar, although I have a different monitor and the
display is only bad enough to force me to drop down from 1280x1024 to
1024x768. You *might* find that playing with the timings in
/etc/X11/XF86Config will help slightly (and there's supposedly a video
mode timings HOWTO around somewhere), but I could be completely wrong
about this; it's not really my field, and I've never had the time or
patience to investigate.
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
