[CS-FSLUG] frambuffer options

[Alvin Smith]

On Friday 11 February 2005 09:56 am, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:00:23PM -0500, Alvin Smith wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > > > 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.

Using synaptic's "Mark for Complete Removal" option.  Is that not the same as 
the purge option?

-- 
peace,
Alvin Smith
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