Screen too far to the left

[Rick Thomas]

Typo!

Copy it into "/sbin" (which is in the root partition, hence 
available before mounting /usr)
*NOT* into "/usr/bin" (which would still be in the /usr 
partition -- and no help at all!)

bad! stupid fingers!  (shakes rolled up newspaper at fingers.  
fingers cringe.)

Sorry 'bout that!

Rick

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 12:07 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:

> Stefan,
>
> At last! something I can help *you* with instead of the other way 
> round!
>
> The "ldd /usr/sbin/fbset" command show that "fbset" only uses 
> libraries in the "/lib" partition -- nothing in "/usr/lib".
>
> So you can copy /usr/sbin/fbset into /usr/bin and execute it from 
> there as early in the boot process as you are comfortable with.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Rick
>
> On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 10:17 AM, Stefan Bruda wrote:
>
>> For the console, I inserted the following in
>> /etc/rc.sysinit, just after the filesystems are mounted:
>>
>> if [ -x /usr/sbin/fbset ]; then
>>     echo  "*** FBset fixup ***"
>>     /usr/sbin/fbset -a -t 12738 187 13 24 1 96 3
>> fi
>>
>> Up to this point boot messages are still chopped but then one cannot
>> use fbset prior to its partition being mounted...
>>
>
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