Re: SOLVED: Defaulting system to mono display

[Karsten Heymann <karsten.heymann@gmx.de>]

I needed to deactivate any colors on my mono-terminal (mda
textmode-card). The main point is to set 

TERM=linux-m

when working locally. Grepping /etc for TERM I found 

#TTYTYPE_FILE=/etc/ttytype

in /etc/login.defs. I did as noted there (created /etc/ttytype and
uncommented the ttytype-line but with no effect, so I inserted

TERM=linux-m

into /etc/environment and am happy. 

[...]
> > Again:
> > 	How do i tell my system that the _textmode console_ is
> > 	black/white? 
> 
> Don't know for sure, but I'd start looking at the terminal
> configuration.  Looking at the terminfo database, 

And that did it. Thanks, Karsten!

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Karsten Heymann                      <karsten.heymann@gmx.de>
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