Slackware 8.1 No start-up graphic
 

Silly Question, but I am curious...

Oddly enough, when I boot Slackware 8.1 on my Compaq Evo N400c laptop I see a picture of the Linux Tux Pengiun on the upper lefthand corner. However, when I installed Slackware 8.1 on my workstation, I do not see the picture of Linux Tux Pengiun.

As I was told by a friend and as I understand, if I don't see the Linux Tux Pengiun that means that Slackware 8.1 was not set-up correctly. Is that a true statement?

However, everything is working correctly.

I appreciate your help and thank you ahead of time.

The penguin picture on bootup is from the framebuffer stuff. In your lilo.conf file you should see some VESA framebuffer lines with text like "vga=791". To enable fb support comment out the line "vga=normal" and uncomment out the resolution that you want. I think I use vga=791 on my laptop. Run lilo when you are done.

There is some documentation on the framebuffer device and how to configure some graphics cards. The docs are in:

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb

Good Luck

Thank you for your response, crabboy. "That was it!"