Re: displaying images without X
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.
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> 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 - star@starshine.org -*- Starshine Technical Services
Sysadmin Support & Training -*- consulting@starshine.org
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