On 25/12/01, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> writes:
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:36:52AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > > If so, then maybe you should have a look at fungetty, a
> > > replacement for the standard Linux getty that can display
> > > full-color graphics above the login prompt. I hacked this up
> > > over the last week or so, and it seems to work pretty well. It
> > > can display many kinds of PNG files above the login prompt.
> > > There are some bugs and limitations, but nothing unreasonable.
> > How does this differ from fbgetty?
> fbgetty doesn't actually implement its `image' command for the
> issue file. At least, AFAICT.
And why then don't you hack on fbgetty and add the necessary code? You
could then send me a patch which I forward to the upstream author. So
far he hasn't been biting me and I think he would at least take a close
look at your patch and maybe completely or partial incorporate it.
Upstream had to first fix some terminal issues which showed up and the
broken secure exec functionality to get fbgetty working fine again. The
next release after the current one, which I'm testing right now, will be
0.2.x and the new feature of actually implementing the image command
would be at least in my opinion a nice feature. So Ben, if you are
interested to hack on fbgetty to get the image functionality implemented
for the next release, just mail me privately.
Christian
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