Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:54:15 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: intel penguin boot logo #2 and penguin rating |
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> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > I've a second version of the penguin patch, placed this to > [...] > > Changes: > > - I loaded the image into xpaint and turned a few bits on and off, > > looks a bit better now I think :-) > > - The logo is a compile time option now (2.1.42 only) > > - The kernel version is displayed too > > - The logo uses fewer characters (some chars of the block are > > empty, these are real spaces now). So I could leave the > > most frequently used box chars intact. > > On my machine, the penguin scrolls off very fast, so I like the older > patch more, that displays the penguin in the upper right corner of the > screen until you switch it off via a write to '/proc/penguin' (didn't > someone want to put the 'penguin-rating' in there?). But this one flickers > as the screen is scrolled, so maybe one could patch the console?
Hmm, what about turning off your turbo switch? You don't need it that fast, anyway ;-)))).
Just kidding. Well, seems too difficult - for some penguin display, you do not want to mess console...
Pavel
Hmm, one more thing: What about removing unimportant kernel messages, so there's nothing to push it off the screen? I'm not really interested in info that unifix tested posix conformace long time ago etc.
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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