> what are the "nice" and "ugly" fonts like? Well, the "ugly" fonts look like the "nice" ones, except anti-aliased or stretched or something -- kinda like stretching characters 13pt high to fit into a matrix 15pt high. So, for example, the horizontal stems were not uniform across lines of text, which is really what bothered me the most.
> You might try on the kernel command line things like vga=1, vga=6, > vga=791, vga=ask etc. and see if you find a kernel displaymode and font > you like better. Well, after figuring out how to get rid of the Mandrake screen and have a boot prompt at startup, and figuring out LILO... vga=ask didn't work. I'd choose something different, but it wouldn't catch on. Things would show up in different sizes in different places on the screen, and by the time login appeared, it was pretty much status quo. However, vga=791 works great! (It had been vga=788.) I knew I had a winner when the Mandrake logo appeared upper left at boot -- not quite the same as a penguin, but still... Next step: tackle inittab! I'm tired of waiting 2 min for the box to decide in the negative that my laptop isn't on the ethernet. But I think I know what I'm doing here. _Essential System Administration_ from O'Reilly is *definitely* the way to go. Thanks to Tim and Evan. Theron ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
