Re: Unable to obtain 16-bit colors in console

Hi Jim,

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 tao-Scq/[email protected] wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have just installed Tao Linux - thanks so much to those involved in
> making this valuable resource available (I am afraid that logic went out
> the window here for me - as a former student of Chinese language and
> civilisation how could I choose any other RHEL clone?).  Everything went
> fine apart from the fact that many favourite packages are missing (mc,
> lynx, pine, mailman, iptraf, tripwire).  However as that is a decision by
> Red Hat I can't blame Tao!  I am installing those from Red Hat 9 binaries,
> and they seem to work fine.  (Should I be rebuilding the rpms from source
> first??)

Note that 'mailman' is available (yum install mailman) with update4; much 
of the rest is available from the Dag Wieers repository; see 
/etc/yum.conf.
>
> One annoying problem that I can't solve so far: I am using console mode
> only as the machine is to be used as a server, and so far I cannot get it
> to work in 16-bit color mode - only 8-bit is available, which makes
> programs such as Midnight Commander difficult to view.  The motherboard
> has an onboard S3 ProSavage KM133 video adapter which has been correctly
> detected.

I'm afraid I can't help you much here.

regards,
 	David

-- 
David L. Parsley
Network Systems Administrator, Alfred University
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on ye shoulders of giants."
 	- Isaac Newton