Re: [Trinux-talk] Console and setup questions....

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

> I have Trinux 8.0 running very well on an old IBM laptop. I'd like to be
> able to use more of the screen for the consoles. Anyone know how to adjust
> the console settings to get a little better resolution?


I assume you mean video mode selection? If you edit the syslinux.cfg on
the boot disk, you can modify what the initial resolution by
tweaking the vga=x value.



> On a similar note, I have dircolors running, but only manually. That is,
> after boot-up when I press 'Enter' to activate a console, I need to type
> "eval `dircolors -s /etc/DIR_COLORS`" to set and export $LS_COLORS. I'd like
> this to be done during boot, and I've tried adding the command to the
> "first" and "last" init scripts in ../tux/init with no luck. Am I correct in
> thinking that I'll have to hack and recompile initrc.gz to get this line
> into /etc/profile, as well as .profile and .bashrc when the machine boots
> up? I'd like to modify $PATH as well. Same hack?

There are some definite "issues" with environment variables caused by
busybox which cause profile .profile .bashrc to be ignored. There has been
some traffic on the busybox mailing list regarding this issue, but haven't
had time to find a workaround.


> I saw that Matthew once posted the script he uses to compile a new
> initrc.gz. Does anyone have it? Could you forward it to me?
> Sam
> 


It is now at http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/

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