On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:28:04AM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > Hello Jeremy, > > Thursday, October 18, 2001, 01:26:41 Acasica, you 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? > > JCR> Please note that I attempted to search using the glimpse interface for the > JCR> Debian lists and search via google's usenet search, but never found an > JCR> answer within all the noise about logo contests and framebuffers. Feel > JCR> free to point me to documentation, FAQ or mailing list posting that > JCR> answers this question. > > JCR> Jeremy C. Reed > JCR> ................................................... > JCR> BSD software, documentation, resources, news... > JCR> http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ > > > what are you talking about? there is a logo? > a text one? > well,check /etc/motd and remove the lines...or > if it's a logo package try to uninstall it via > apt-get remove logo* or something.. > good luck. > Dani, > Hackers unsupport. > I think Jeremy might be using framebuffers, at least I met with the penguin when I started to use framebuffers. My experience is that the logo disappears when you need the space, i.e. when you start a ncurses program. Doesn't it go away with Cltr-l? I did not find any boot option for not displaying the logo in kernel-documentation (Documenation/logo.txt and Documentation/fb/*.txt).
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