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psyklops 11-30-2002 01:00 AM

I kinda find out how to do it.

I had to add

vga=6

This was one of the video modes avalible. It shrunk my fonts in the term alittle but now I have a line running through each of the directories... They still funcion as normal though.

Anyone know why?

moses 11-30-2002 01:12 AM

You don't affect any of the files by changing the fonts.
On the Slack boxes, there is a program called setfont. This allows you
to change the font w/o changing the VGA mode of your console. I don't
know if it is available to RH users or not.
locate setfont
man setfont
locate consolefonts
If it's not, I'd be willing to package up the setup scripts, etc. for you. . .

psyklops 11-30-2002 02:34 AM

Thanks Moses. I think using Grub as the boot loader in RH I have to give a vga option in the boot line though. Im not up to slack yet. Some day though!

moses 11-30-2002 08:07 AM

Ok, but there are only four files, not counting the fonts. The binary setfont,
the man page, the config script, and an example startup script. . . I can
package them up so all you have to do is untar/ungzip the package, they
go where they need to be, and you just run fontconfig. . . Get you started
down the path of pure goodness. . . ;)

psyklops 11-30-2002 03:30 PM

Sounds good. Send it to psyklops@hotmai.com. Thank you! Send a little read me with it to explain how to set it up.

moses 11-30-2002 11:27 PM

http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~mmilazzo/lq/setfont

Have fun.

frankietomatoes 01-09-2003 06:54 PM

I've seen in some modes that Redhat displays a logo or others diplsy a penguin.

How is this done?

Looked in the ../Doc../fb/* files and couldn't see mention of this

vladkrack 01-10-2003 07:35 AM

Thats work of the aplication that manage the login, the most used is the mingetty, but you can use other's ...

I use fbgetty, that get's the image /etc/issue.xpm and use's as a logo, in Conectiva it's in the package fbsh. To use you must modify the /etc/inittab

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
.
.

to:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/fbgetty tty1 fb0
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/fbgetty tty2 fb0
.
.

and restart the init:

# init q

Cpare 10-09-2006 09:51 AM

Thanks for this information - VldaKrack, your information was spot on, as I was also feeling this pain. Now to just figure out how to set a background image... :)

Cpare 10-09-2006 09:53 AM

This info was exactly what I was looking for - Thanks!

rickh 10-09-2006 12:22 PM

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