On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:51:09PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: >An unnamed Administration source, Bill Campbell, wrote: >% On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:47:35AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: >% >This might help. >% >http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ >% >% Interesting approach, but it may well be RH specific. > >Indeed. Using OpenLinux from The Company Whose Name I Shall Not Mention, >you could press Ctrl+d to dump PNG screenshots from the installer into the >RAM disk's /tmp filesystem. You had to move them out of /tmp before >rebooting because they would go away, but it was a darn handy feature >for taking screenshots for manuals and such.
Is that ctrl-d documented somewhere? >In your case, Bill, you might be able to send the console output to >a serial port and take your screenshots that way. Another method is >to load the console framebuffer and then do, more or less, > ># cp /dev/fb0 somefile > >I don't know what the output format is, but this is a start. That could be interesting, particularly if (a) it's portable on the versions of Linux I want to document, and (b) the format is something useful. It could require a fair quantity of ramdisk as the JPEG files from my 2.1 megapixel camera required a bit over 25MB before cropping and cleaning up with the gimp. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.'' -President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
