| sanelson | ages ago, on a slackware install, I had a console font (ie not bitmapped) that was small - may have been console in a frame-buffer; so I could run emacs / w3m etc without X and had useable real-estate. Is this relatively easy to achieve? I'd like to be able to use a machine in the same way - screen, emacs, w3m, but no X. |
| kombi | Maulkin: what's the mdadm command again to see whether things are good..? |
| dancek | After reboot my x.org shows only a black screen. I didn't touch xorg.conf and am using i810. Any ideas where I should start looking? |
| beardy | samiam: Either a framebuffer at high resolution, or what you did before then, select another font. |
| action | beardy is an 80x25 "real" textmode guy. |
| beardy | is an 80x25 "real" textmode guy. |
| sanelson | beardy: is it just a boot option? |
| hark | sanelson: did the cursor thing get fixed? |
| rpc | beardy is it ok to ask you about one more thing? would you happen to know a tool that is able to break any established connection? by giving the ip or port |
| hark | sanelson: console-terminus ftw ;) |
| beardy | sanelson: No, it is a program you run and change font, though it was so long ago since I played with it, I don't recall the name. |
| rpc | beardy i know i could do that with iptables easily but perhaps there is a better method |
| sanelson | hark: Just got back; I've had a look at the diverts in the preinstall script - can't see a problem; so commented them out; just trying to work out how to get my changes back into the .deb so I can install it with my alterations in place. |
| beardy | rpc: Hmm, not a simple nice that that just does that no.. I know ettercap can though. |
| hark | sanelson: did you do the dpkg-divert remove command? sanelson: this one: dpkg-divert --remove /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz |
| beardy | !apropos |
| dpkg | from memory, apropos is a way to find man pages all around, and to find the program you are looking for, you can man -k <thingie> or apropos <thingie> and it will tell you the man items that match your <thingie> |
| rpc | beardy thank you, reading up... |
| beardy | sanelson: Use apropos. Though I did it for you this once, 'man consolechars' |
| sanelson | hark: well, the file it refers to isn't there; cursor.pcf.gz |
| beardy | sanelson: consolechars (8) - load EGA/VGA console screen font, screen-font map, and/or application-charset map. |
| action | beardy wanders off |
| beardy | wanders off |
| hark | sanelson: reinstall xfonts-base |
| sanelson | hark: it says it's the latest version |
| hark | !find /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz |
| dpkg | Debian Package/File/Desc Search of '/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz' returned no results. |
| hark | sanelson: well, xfonts-base provides it |
| sanelson | i could install it manually, i suppose |
| action | themill likes "apropos"... it reminds that there are literate geeks :) |
| themill | likes "apropos"... it reminds that there are literate geeks :) |
| hark | sanelson: do the dpkg-diver command and reinstall xfonts-base |
| dancek | After a reboot xorg only gives me a black screen. It worked previously and I didn't touch config, might have updated. I'm using i810, if I switch to fbdev it works. Mainly looking for help on where to look for the source of the problem - xorg.0.log doesn't seem to help |
| Ahmadinejad | How do i search on which packages i have installed on my box? |
| beardy | !list all packages |
| dpkg | To get a complete list of package names (and ONLY package names) for all installed packages on your Debian system, do "COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |awk '/^[hi]i/{print $2}'". Or: "dpkg --get-selections | grep --invert "deinstall" | awk '{print $1}'", or aptitude search ~i -F "%p" |
| Ahmadinejad | Can i search on packages that contain the word: "sql"? |
| hark | sanelson: that's the reason you're getting the error in the first place |
| beardy | Ahmadinejad: What I (dpkg) said, | grep sql |
| aldin | how to resize image.png to image.png (128x128) over console |
| beardy | Ahmadinejad: or, 'man dpkg' |