suse and vt 1

[jaymzter]

A friend loaned me Suse 8.0. Normally I run Mandrake or RH. For the experience I loaded Suse and now have this graphical type login on vt1. Does anyone know how they did this? I need to be able to duplicate it on my own because... that's what I do %^)

 

[fluid11]

You want the GUI on vt1, rather than vt7, or both? Take a look at this if thats what you are talking about...

http://sunsite.dk/linux-newbie/lnag_xwindows.html#2nd_GUI_login_prompt

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[jaymzter]

Nah, ChrisP, that's old news. At first I thought they were running framebufferX on vt1, but such is not the case. Now, the framebuffer is being used on all virtual terminals, but in just the straight "console" way. Suse has something with a green background (no, not using setterm) and an image. It kills me, because framebufferX would seem to be the only option, but there is no XF86FBDEV, just a XF86_VGA16, and there was no output from 'pidof /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16', so again, I'm stumped...

 

[jaymzter]

For those interested, the package used is a suse one called splashanim. It provides a background image that surrounds your text terminal, and can display active images to make you feel good when the system is booting or whatever. Suse is so weird, no rc.sysinit or anything, I had to just do some digging.

 

[fluid11]

Oh, you have graphics at the command prompt. This Linux guru that I know has a Blue Screen of Death image on the top part of his command prompt. He has this on a few of his Red Hat servers. I never asked how he did it.


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