I just switched from an older version of Slackware (9.0) and have 10.2
installed fresh without any traces of any other operating system.

Now I no longer have that little Penguin that shows in the top left corner
when I reboot. That also changed the size of the character sizes as well.

Anyone know about this and can I get that back somehow??

Ted Gervais wrote:

> I just switched from an older version of Slackware (9.0) and have 10.2
> installed fresh without any traces of any other operating system.
>
> Now I no longer have that little Penguin that shows in the top left corner
> when I reboot. That also changed the size of the character sizes as well.
>
> Anyone know about this and can I get that back somehow??

You see that penguin logo when 1) you activate the framebuffer at boot time
(vga=773 or vga=791 in /boot/grub/menu.lst or lilo.conf, depending on what
you use) and 2) when the bootup logo is configured into your kernel. In the
kernel config menu (on my 2.6.12), it's:

Device drivers ---> Graphics support ---> Logo configuration[*] Bootup logo

In a stock Slackware kernel, I guess simply activating the framebuffer will
do, since it's enabled by default.

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs
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On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:02:02 +0000, Ted Gervais wrote:

> I just switched from an older version of Slackware (9.0) and have 10.2
> installed fresh without any traces of any other operating system.

Really?

> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670

Hmmm...

> Now I no longer have that little Penguin that shows in the top left corner
> when I reboot. That also changed the size of the character sizes as well.
>
> Anyone know about this and can I get that back somehow??

Do some research on "framebuffer", and/or the phrase "vga=791" or similar,
in your boot loader config.

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"Niki Kovacs" <mickey@mouse.com> wrote in message
news:dprbck$ms1$1@news.tiscali.fr...
> Ted Gervais wrote:
>
>> I just switched from an older version of Slackware (9.0) and have 10.2
>> installed fresh without any traces of any other operating system.
>>
>> Now I no longer have that little Penguin that shows in the top left
>> corner
>> when I reboot. That also changed the size of the character sizes as
>> well.
>>
>> Anyone know about this and can I get that back somehow??
>
> You see that penguin logo when
> 1) you activate the framebuffer at boot time
> (vga=773 or vga=791 in /boot/grub/menu.lst or lilo.conf, depending
> on what
> you use) and
> 2) when the bootup logo is configured into your kernel. In the
> kernel config menu (on my 2.6.12), it's:
>
> Device drivers ---> Graphics support ---> Logo configuration
>[*] Bootup logo

Alright! That was good information. I was not running the 2.6.x kernel but
did install it.
I see that selection you speak of. I tried it and it never worked.

Something else must be amiss.

I am using LILO rather than grub. I wonder if that makes a difference. I
also tried the various VGA=numbers and that
doesn't seem to work.

So - I am left to wonder what I have forgotten on this issue??


>
> In a stock Slackware kernel, I guess simply activating the framebuffer
> will
> do, since it's enabled by default.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki Kovacs
> --
> I'm not as think as you stoned I am.

Ted Gervais wrote:
> I just switched from an older version of Slackware (9.0) and have 10.2
> installed fresh without any traces of any other operating system.
>
> Now I no longer have that little Penguin that shows in the top left corner
> when I reboot. That also changed the size of the character sizes as well.
>
> Anyone know about this and can I get that back somehow??

Not "somehow" but in regular simple Slackware fashion, a-->b-->c and so on.
a) read the sample /etc/lilo.conf that is on your install.
notice that there is a whole list of various vga displays listed AND
commented out. One of them is uncommented and this one takes control of
what you see.
b) edit this file, comment out the uncommented one, and uncomment one of
the others.
SAVE THE EDITED FILE!!!
c) As root run /sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf # it is capital C.

That is it.

[to regulars]
I am addressing a MS-Glassware user, hence this explanation.
[/to regulars]

Have fun

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.

On 2006-01-08, Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@shoalhaven.net.au> wrote:

>> Now I no longer have that little Penguin that shows in the top left
>> corner when I reboot. That also changed the size of the character sizes
>> as well.

> Not "somehow" but in regular simple Slackware fashion, a-->b-->c and so on.
> a) read the sample /etc/lilo.conf that is on your install.

What Stanislaw referred to indirectly is one of the framebuffer video
drivers. also need to ensure that framebuffer support is compiled into the
kernel.

Rich

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Dan C <youmustbejoking@invalid.lan> wrote on Sunday 08 January 2006 08:39 in
alt.os.linux.slackware <pan.2006.01.08.15.39.01.794450@invalid.lan>:

> On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:02:02 +0000, Ted Gervais wrote:
>
>> I just switched from an older version of Slackware (9.0) and have 10.2
>> installed fresh without any traces of any other operating system.
>
> Really?

Why does it really matter? The question is straightforward enough.

>
>> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670
>
> Hmmm...

Two things pop into my mind:
1. He is posting to the net using a friend's computer, and using the
software at hand.
2. He has configured his own newsreader (slrn, for all we know) to add that
header to outgoing articles instead of something truthful.

The second is vastly less likely, but not impossible. NNTP isn't exactly a
'secure' protocol.

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Sharp Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:25:02 -0700, Chris Barts barfedÂ*:

> 2. He has configured his own newsreader (slrn, for all we know) to add that
> header to outgoing articles instead of something truthful.

And evn so, what could "something truthful" possibly be?

> The second is vastly less likely, but not impossible. NNTP isn't exactly a
> 'secure' protocol.

Is it?