Purposeless...
May. 13th, 2001 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpTelling the Mandrake install program to do its thing in Russian gave me little more than instructions in Russian to guide me through the install.
Upon completion of the install, the system rebooted and proceeds to automatically load X Windows (one recalls this cropping up once before, as described in my very first LJ post, but I digress...).
There are, however, two problems with such behavior. Primo, declaring my monitor to be a plain vanilla VGA device wasn't generic enough. The image on the screen is tripled...I suspect the word "interlacing" might be employed if we got technical about describing the problem. If I move my mouse, changes occur on several places on the screen.
Segundo, despite the display problem, it is apparent I'm not getting any Cyrillic on the screen. All I see is '?' characters...that is, what I can see of them.
What to do?
I manage to log in as root. I open an xterm using Alt-F2. I edit /etc/inittab in the blind to set the initial runlevel to 3. I reboot the machine.
Hooray! X is no longer loaded by default. However, there does not seem to be anything special about the console login. On the Linux box in Pagosa, I have a script set up to let me toggle character sets. No joy in that department, here.
Oh, well...it's not as if I expected something miraculous. Since I do not have scads of valuable files stored on the box, I think I shall reinstall...and this time maybe I will use a "standard" distro instead of Mandrake's Linux for Windows. Who knows...maybe I should try out FreeBSD?
Lunch should be ready...
Cheers...
Upon completion of the install, the system rebooted and proceeds to automatically load X Windows (one recalls this cropping up once before, as described in my very first LJ post, but I digress...).
There are, however, two problems with such behavior. Primo, declaring my monitor to be a plain vanilla VGA device wasn't generic enough. The image on the screen is tripled...I suspect the word "interlacing" might be employed if we got technical about describing the problem. If I move my mouse, changes occur on several places on the screen.
Segundo, despite the display problem, it is apparent I'm not getting any Cyrillic on the screen. All I see is '?' characters...that is, what I can see of them.
What to do?
I manage to log in as root. I open an xterm using Alt-F2. I edit /etc/inittab in the blind to set the initial runlevel to 3. I reboot the machine.
Hooray! X is no longer loaded by default. However, there does not seem to be anything special about the console login. On the Linux box in Pagosa, I have a script set up to let me toggle character sets. No joy in that department, here.
Oh, well...it's not as if I expected something miraculous. Since I do not have scads of valuable files stored on the box, I think I shall reinstall...and this time maybe I will use a "standard" distro instead of Mandrake's Linux for Windows. Who knows...maybe I should try out FreeBSD?
Lunch should be ready...
Cheers...
