On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Petre Daniel wrote:
> JCR> Well, I have installed 2.2 on a i386 system with a Matrox Millenium MGA
> JCR> G100 AGP card and a ViewSonic P655 monitor. The logo looks bad, but that
> JCR> doesn't matter. (The student using the workstation was new to Linux and
> JCR> couldn't even recognize that it was a penguin.)
>
> JCR> The problem is that the logo stays on the screen even after the kernel
> and
> JCR> the system boots. It uses up screen space (plus it never drew correctly
> JCR> in the first place).
>
> JCR> How can I easily choose to never display any logo?
> what are you talking about? there is a logo?
> a text one?
Graphical.
> well,check /etc/motd and remove the lines...or
This is irrelevant. Please read my message again: "the logo stays on the
screen even after the kernel a$ the system boots." This implies that it is
on the screen long before any /etc/motd of the day is used.
> if it's a logo package try to uninstall it via
> apt-get remove logo* or something..
As far as I can see, there is no such thing as a logo package.
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> do you have to use fb? I think the logo is mandatory w/ framebuffer... but
> when you clear the screen, it's supposed to go away
No, as far as I know, I don't need to use fb.
Where are the documented steps for getting rid of the logo?
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> The kernel Documentation has something about that in the framebuffer
> directory... If I remember correctly, someone had written a gimp-plugin to
> convert any image to a file that you replaced the penguin w/...
I think the above was for another reader, but it was also sent to me. I am
hoping that I don't have to rebuild a kernel. (This is for a student
workstation in a Unix class where each workstation is running a different
OS; please note that each workstation usually only takes three to ten
minutes to install; in other words, I don't have time to waste on this
particular system.)
I read an older debian-user posting that said the framebuffer can be
enabled via lilo (configurations sent to kernel). Hopefully, this means I
can disable it too :)
I guess I can check for some append="video=..." or vga=... line. My lilo
manual doesn't discuss this, my lilo(8) and lilo.conf(5) manuals don't
have info on this. I am not at the system, but I'll try setting
vga=normal.
Does anyone know where I can find the lilo documentation that talks about
disabling fb?
Thanks,
(I forgot to mention that I am not on the mailing list. The debian.org
archive was last updated on Monday and the geocrawler.com archive doesn't
show anything yet. Please consider Cc'ing messages to me.)
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