<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Felipe Figueiredo pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 10/4/2007 6:55 PM: <blockquote cite="mid:200710041955.24903.philsf79@gmail.com" type="cite">On Thursday 04 October 2007 19:25:00 Pete Holsberg wrote: <blockquote type="cite">sktsee pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 10/4/2007 5:18 PM: <blockquote type="cite">On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 15:54 -0400, Brian McKee wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On 04/10/2007, Pete Holsberg <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pjh42@pobox.com"><pjh42@pobox.com></a> wrote: <blockquote type="cite"> What controls the resolution in the console? Pretend I'm a Unix geek. Now what's your answer? :-) </blockquote> R.T.F.M. .................. </blockquote> That's classic. Maybe even sig-worthy. </blockquote> Yeah, well... linux [pjh] /home/pjh> man console No manual entry for console </blockquote>  You do know rtfm nowadays means "google it", right? ;) </blockquote> I'll have to try that on a Windows mailing list!! <blockquote cite="mid:200710041955.24903.philsf79@gmail.com" type="cite"> Even so, what you would be looking for (if it was serious) should be in /usr/shre/doc/console*. But you would know that, being a geek ;-) </blockquote> Actually, nothing associated with X was around when I was "good" at Unix and it looks like most of the filenames have changed under Linux. <blockquote cite="mid:200710041955.24903.philsf79@gmail.com" type="cite"> Seriously, see the pakage console-setup, not installed by default. You can easilly configure console at any time by dpkg-reconfigure'ing it. </blockquote> I installed it and got this: <pre>linux [pjh] /home/pjh> sudo apt-get install console-tools Password:</pre> <pre>Reading package lists... Done</pre> <pre>Building dependency tree</pre> <pre>Reading state information... Done</pre> <pre>Suggested packages:</pre> <pre> kbd-compat</pre> <pre>The following packages will be REMOVED:</pre> <pre> kbd</pre> <pre>The following NEW packages will be installed:</pre> <pre> console-tools</pre> <pre>0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.</pre> <pre>Need to get 301kB of archives.</pre> <pre>After unpacking 426kB disk space will be freed.</pre> <pre>Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y</pre> <pre>Get:1 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com</a> feisty/main console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu3 [301kB]</pre> <pre>Fetched 301kB in 6s (49.5kB/s)</pre> <pre>dpkg: kbd: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:</pre> <pre> console-terminus depends on kbd | console-tools; however:</pre> <pre> Package kbd is to be removed.</pre> <pre> Package console-tools is not installed.</pre> <pre> console-common depends on kbd | console-tools (>= 1:0.2.3dbs-54); however:</pre> <pre> Package kbd is to be removed.</pre> <pre> Package console-tools is not installed.</pre> <pre> gdm depends on kbd | console-tools; however:</pre> <pre> Package kbd is to be removed.</pre> <pre> Package console-tools is not installed.</pre> <pre>(Reading database ... 119355 files and directories currently installed.)</pre> <pre>Removing kbd ...</pre> <pre>Selecting previously deselected package console-tools.</pre> <pre>(Reading database ... 119219 files and directories currently installed.)</pre> <pre>Unpacking console-tools (from .../console-tools_1%3a0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...</pre> <pre>Setting up console-tools (0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu3) ...</pre> <pre>update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic</pre> <pre> linux [pjh] /home/pjh> </pre> Do I need to reboot? Then I tried <pre>linux [pjh] /home/pjh> sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-tools</pre> <pre>update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic</pre> <pre>linux [pjh] /home/pjh> </pre> ??? <div class="moz-signature">-- Pete Holsberg Columbus, NJ If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich... -- John F. Kennedy </div> </body> </html>