On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:14:00PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:51:09PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: > > > >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?
No. > >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. It should be portable, provided the Linux you have has framebuffer support and the machines have reasonable, VESA-compliant graphics adapters. Kurt _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
