Re: Missing a Tux?

[Arjan van de Ven <arjanv redhat com>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:49:02AM -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 09:09 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 23:32 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> > > During the initial boot-up phase on an SMP system, shouldn't I see more
> > > than one smiling Tux image at the top of the screen? I do on all the
> > > dual Xeon systems at work, but not on my dual Athlon system at home.
> > 
> > actually you shouldn't see any tux image; you only see such an image if
> > you manually enable graphical framebuffer... which in turn has a quite
> > significant risk of disturbing XFree86's operation...
> 
> Arjan,
> 
> Well, now that you mention it, I do set vga=795 in grub and a smaller
> system font size so I don't have to track boot-ups through a 25-line
> peephole. But I've never noticed any negative effects on X.

there are other ways to do that... like by setting the font to 8x8 :)

> (And for heaven's sake what are you doing up at this hour??? :-))

in europe... it's not that bad a time to be awake ;)