Tux Graphic in Upper Left Corner After Boot

tofu · 07-10-2003, 02:04 PM

The tux graphic that appears in the upper left corner during the debian boot process stays there after the box finishes starting up. I can get rid of it by switching to terminal 2 and then comming back to terminal 1 but, is there a way to automatically clear that graphic each time the computer finishes booting?

thanks in advance.

peeples · 07-11-2003, 11:50 AM

When the runlevel switches to level 2, it should go away automatically. There must be something wrong somewhere in the framebuffer or your video driver...

tofu · 07-11-2003, 12:05 PM

It goes away automatically for you? That's wierd. I have debian installed on three computers and it stays put on all of them. My main computer at home has a GeForce III and the two other computers have SiS chipset cards. All of them load in text mode only and I run startx after logging in. I think most other people run XDM so maybe they aren't aware of this problem.

Haite · 07-11-2003, 01:44 PM

I've never have that problem even though I got rid of the XDM init scripts. Radeon 8500 on a Soyo Dragon+. Actually the first thing I do after installing a new system is roll a fresh kernel with the latest, and get rid of Tux in the process.

tofu · 07-11-2003, 02:16 PM

I guess I'll have to recompile or learn to live with it. The thing is, I've never yet successfully recompiled a kernel. hehe. There are several hundred options to run though - it's very intimidating.

Haite · 07-11-2003, 05:27 PM

It's not so bad as long as you're using menuconfig or xconfig. Personally I get to just turn a lot of sections off that I don't use (like SCSI, no there, boom done with that section). Get your config set, then make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install, let it do its compiling, cp ./arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21, vi /etc/lilo.conf add the new image, /sbin/lilo -v, done.

footfrisbee · 07-13-2003, 01:20 AM

The "debian-way" to recompile a kernel is to make config/menuconfig/xconfig and then make-kpkg kernel-image. Then install the kernel image deb package and all of the copying, symlinking, and editing of lilo.conf is done for you.