Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:16:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:16:57 -0500 Received: from [81.2.122.30] ([81.2.122.30]:55812 "EHLO darkstar.example.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:16:35 -0500 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200301281426.h0SEQRRn001008@darkstar.example.net> Subject: Re: AW: Bootscreen To: Raphael_Schmid@CUBUS.COM (Raphael Schmid) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 14:26:27 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rob@r-morris.co.uk, Raphael_Schmid@CUBUS.COM, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <398E93A81CC5D311901600A0C9F29289469380@cubuss2> from "Raphael Schmid" at Jan 28, 2003 03:11:10 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Wait screen, then just hangs", which would then require an > > engineer visit, as opposed to, for example, "it says Obtaining IP > > Address... then hangs" > I do have a solution for that. Just make the image 640x440 instead > 640x480, and have the initscripts output on one of the lower lines > only, always over-writing the previous message. That way, the > support engineer would know what's going wrong and you'd still have > a cute picture. At the moment, the framebuffer reserves a few lines for the Tux icons, and uses the rest for text. Why not just modify that code to achieve what you want, (a large logo, and a text window). You could do that on the Atari 65XE, have a text mode window at the bottom of a graphics screen :-) John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/