Re: displaying images without X
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, 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.
only solution I can think off is using zgv.
Anyways, nearly everyting that's seen at bootup can be found in the
/etc/init.d/ dir
so cd there and say grep -i <filename>
if you're lucky, the call for displaying it will popup
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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.
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> Thanks,
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> Drew Cohan
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> drew@drewcohan.com
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Andor Demarteau
linux@disnet.demon.nl
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