On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:13:31PM -0500, Drew Cohan wrote: > Does anyone know how Debian 3.0, upon booting up, displays the penguin > holding a beer without X being installed? I've found the png but can't > find the means the system uses to display this image on boot. > > > > I've tried to duplicate this behavior with 'fbi' but I get 'only packed > pixel buffers supported'. With 'zgv', I get a seg fault. All I want to > do is display a jpg/gif/png without having X installed.
Two dif't questions. The kernel displays a cute little thing onto the framebuffer, because it's compiled into the kernel, to prove the framebuffer works. Once you have a working framebuffer, you should be able to use zgv, but it will not work correctly unless you configure /etc/vga/libvga.config. It will need your horiz sync and vertical refresh rates (the same thing X wants) and you *probably* have to uncomment chipset FBDev ...of course, only video chipset should be uncommented, and there's a chance you'd get better behavior from them ALL being commented. But I have gotten segfault from having the wrong chipset activated, because the drive I'm on was swapped into another machine. Yeah, I'm a big zgv user. Heather Stern - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- Starshine Technical Services Sysadmin Support & Training -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]