> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:21:46 -0600 > From: jxa...@verizon.net > To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Query regarding displaying of Images on console. > > > On 11/26/12, Anurag Paliwal<anurag...@live.com> wrote: > > > >Hi guys,As I selected to have a tux logo to be seen at time of booting my > >LFS system, it is clear that it does > >support rendering images on screen. My question is how can I use this > >functionality to display some other images on console? > > > > > >Thanks. > > You'll need to enable Linux framebuffer support in the kernel when you build > it. > > Also check out the Linux Framebuffer How-to: > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO/index.html > > Finally, to take advantage of the framebuffer image display, you'll need to > compile programs that take advantage of the framebuffer support. Three > programs that I use are the web browser links which can open in a graphical > mode on the framebuffer, fbida which can display images in the framebuffer, > and mplayer will play videos in the framebuffer. > > GTK 2 can be compiled with framebuffer support (although I haven't done it), > so that GTK programs can run in the framebuffer without modification. When I > get to BLFS on my current LFS build, I'm going to try the GTK framebuffer > support. > > Regards, > > -Drew > > -- Thanks guys, appreciate the help :).
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