[CS-FSLUG] frambuffer options

[john-thomas richards]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:00:23PM -0500, Alvin Smith wrote:
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> > > Not sure why I don't have a "non-scrolling area"...
> >
> > The non-scrolling area should be the top 80 or so pixels of your screen,
> > the part where the logos display.  The logos should remain there until
> > you get a boot-prompt or until gdm/kdm/xdm/graphical login manager
> > starts.
> 
> I have seen it before, but I am not sure why it is not being seen here now.  
> After removing the boot-icons package, I don't see anything at all at boot 
> time other than the regular boot messages.  No tux either.

How did you remove the boot-icons package?  Did you use the purge option
(apt-get remove boot-icons --purge)?  If not, you may still be running
the init script for boot icons.  Since you have removed the actual
graphics, the script has nothing to display.
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