Yes, the ASCII graphics are irritating, even if you do use a console. I
think the ASCII representation of Tux is ugly. You can comment this out
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to get rid of this irritant.
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:27:05AM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > It works great. But I'm using a wyse50 and when rs.sysinit runs all the
> > colors mess up the screen. I've tried
> > butting TERM=wyse50;export TERM in rc.sysinit but it does not seem to work.
> > Know how to fix that one?
>
>         You wouldn't happen to be running Mandrake Linux are you? Those
> $#$#@$ put an ascii color image in /etc/issue on bootup that hoses dumb
> tubes something furious. Looks pretty on the console but sucks on serial.
>
>         Disclaimer: The preceeding statement is based on Mandrake 6.0 and
> they got seriously bitched at for it. If they fixed it in later releases,
> great. If they didn't, they're even worse than I accused them of, since
> they would be screwing up knowingly.
>
>         If it's not, then I'm not sure what the problem is.
>
> > Chris
>
>         [...]
>
>         Mike
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