Nice trick, thanks
.. it's useless but I love those
Nice trick, thanks
.. it's useless but I love those
Cool, thanks! I was looking for something like this since I switched from Gentoo, which basically had this.
Slightly related; Any idea how you get a tux-penguin in the top of the screen for the number of processors you have right after the kernel is loaded? (Like Gentoo and Knoppix do?)
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Glad you guys like it! Like the post above me, I'd also like to have the Tux graphic at the top. Useless tweaks are my favorite. If I figure it out I'll post it here.. but if anyone else can do it, let us know how!
I'm not a PPC user, so take what I say with a grain of salt. It looks like what you suggested will work. If nothing changes, try vga=791. Worst case scenario, if it doesn't boot, just get into recovery mode and change the .conf back and you should be fine. Good luck!Originally Posted by autocrosser
For rsolution and colour depth i found this HOWTO. When you scroll the page down you will found table of kernel mode numbers for the 'vga=' parameter. It is for gentoo but i think it should work for Ubuntu also.
Well--I tried append="quiet splash vga=792" , append="quiet spash vga=791"---no luck--booted fine (and normal)--then I tried adding the line append="vga=792" , append="vga=791"---still no luck.... O- PPC boots with the penguin logo in the top bar area--I'm a dual 1G system--so I have two
I'll take a look at the Gentoo info--I've used their site before--tried to install the 2004.3 release--never worked well for me
(edit)--took a quick look at the Gentoo info--looks like what I need--at work right now, so I'll work with on it this evening!!
Thanks for all the input!!!
Cheers!!
Dean
Last edited by autocrosser; July 19th, 2005 at 08:11 PM.
I think that should work, but just to be safe I would advise that you first backup your yaboot.conf file before changing the line. Then try it. If anything goes wrong you can change back to the backed up version.Originally Posted by autocrosser
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Thanks a lot for the tip!
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This was very awesome, I grew up with RedHat and loved the colorful boot. Ever since that, every other distro out there didn't use it. I'm guessing users found it blinding? But I liked it. Thanks.
The only problems I have had was with the resolution / tux logo. Ubuntu hasn't seemd to like a really high resolution. On the other hand, knoppix loved it . I'll figure it out..
Last edited by FLeiXiuS; July 19th, 2005 at 10:54 PM.
I got plenty of problems with vga=792 and vga=791. For example when I reached gnome I would click on a menu and see nothing, then pass my mouse over the invisible menu and it would appear. Same with desktop icons. There were no icons on my desktop until y passed my mouse over them...
3dfx voodoo3 here... 1024*768 max res in xorg.
Well--I tried the Gentoo info--added a line vga=0x317 still no change. I guess I'm going to look at a boot splash--either splashy (have seen some good info on the Breezy forum) or work with the info from http://www.bootsplash.org/
I really like the verbose mode pic in the main page!!!
( http://www.bootsplash.org/verbose-mode.jpg )
If I find info on how to change the yaboot.conf--I'll post them here---
Cheers!!
Dean
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