Re: intel penguin boot logo #2 and penguin rating
Pavel Machek (pavel@Elf.mj.gts.cz)
Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:54:15 +0200
> 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.
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