Hi all.
I am trying to figure out where the hell the penguine comes from that appears on the top left of the screen if you enable a frame buffer?

I can't seem to find any sort of configuration for it, or even the place where that picture resides on the system.

I am trying to get some other boot screens to run, since they are not working I have a feeling that the penguine might be overriding them.

I thought I have seen something about slackware actually patching their kernel to do this, but I don't even use the native slackware kernel?

TIA

It's framebuffer, and yeah, it's in the kernel.

When you recompiled your kernel, you must have enabled (or not disabled) framebuffering.

It's likely not blocking these from being displayed though

To see boot messages:
dmesg
cat /var/log/messages | less
less /var/log/messages
tail /var/log/messages



Cool

Thanks MasterC... I guess I didn't state my question well.

I _DO_ want to use the frame buffer, I just don't want the penguine to show up. I love having the resolution I get from FB, but I would like to change the boot up screen, and was wondering where the penguine picture is actually located on the system, or any way of disabling (only) the penguine picture.

Any other thoughts?

I have a related question. I use framebuffer, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to substitute another picture. Say, maybe the Slackware logo

All I know is the you can switch it off at kernel compile time. I can't remember what the option was called, though.

You might wanna check out http://www.bootsplash.org/

I guess slackware uses this to display the image. This anyway makes it possible to use any image you want at boot.(even moving images..)

BootSplash ? Isn't that such logo of the bios, like that appear on the right upper corner of screen (energy star).

That looked cool, I went by a Deutsche-site with such splash images (have certain pixels, format). That can be combined into the bios code by using the tool cbrom, danger stuff, who dare to try it and risking a unbootable mobo ..

Btw, is it possible to have more/custom emoticon on LQ's, one told me on yahoo, that the yahoo emoticon can be modified somewhere (user.dat .. on windows) ..

Thanks for the replys.

LinuxJabber: That is something else. What we are talking about is when the O.S. Is loading, although it is possible to get some animated boot up screens too (mine looks mighty fine It 's a couple of patches to lilo... hold on I'll find the links:
http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/

EyesOnly: that is exactly the thing I am having problems with! I am wondering if the penguine is overriding the bootsplash.org stuff?

I don't think that slack uses this, because it requires a patch to the kernel.

They might have just written it into the initrd image though, I'm not sure.

Locura: That's what I had originally wanted to do!!!, but things got all complicated when I found bootsplash.org
Simply changing the image to something else would be fine for me though.

Anybody got ideas?

They said the logo must be inside the kernel source, then just do a "find "*.gif" /usr/src/linux -print {}" something on the source code tree for image file, try also with .jpg & other images extentions ..

I'm using framebuffer but I get no penguin ;(. I feel left out!

From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt:

Or, from a google search for 'framebuffer' 'logo' 'penguin', try this link:

http://www.arnor.net/linuxlogo/

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

I just started whit installing this bootsplach stuff, 'cause it does look cool.

I was following the guide at the bootsplash website, and there they say, when you configure the kernel, you have to enable the option "Use splash screen instead of boot logo" in the submenu consoledrivers->frame buffering. But it isn't there!
I have a custom 2.4.22 kernel, and the patches are for a 2.4.20 kernel, so I guess that's why it isn't there. I don't wanna go back to 2.4.20, because thisone doesn't support my soundcard.

I haven't tryed to compile the kernel whitout this option, so it might work anyway.

devoyage: maybe you forgot this option? it seems to me the bootsplash stuff is indeed overrided whit the standard bootlogo unless you enable this option.

Oh, just found out the "Use splash screen instead of boot logo" option IS available when using kernel 2.4.21 I'm gonna try this one, because 2.4.21 also supports my soundcard.

I used the bootsplash patch from this site:here

I used the patch for kernel 2.4.22, and then followed the installation as on www.bootsplash.org. There is one thing missing in this manual: you will have to add the line
initrd=/boot/initrd.splash
to lilo.conf, otherwise it wont work.

when you add append = "splash=silent" to your lilo.conf, bootsplash will run in 'silent mode', so it covers up all the kernel messages.

Now it works fine for me, and it looks real cool

what patch for 2.4.22?