http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2010/10/changing-the-boot-logo-in-slackware/ Random thoughts, tips & tricks about Slackware-Linux, Lego and Star Wars Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:35:17 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2010/10/changing-the-boot-logo-in-slackware/comment-page-1/#comment-2461 Niels Horn Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:40:01 +0000 http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/?p=779#comment-2461 The problem is that - when booting - the BIOS just understands the the lower resolutions. To get a nice looking picture on wide-screen monitors, you have to distort the image like in the example I gave. The problem is that – when booting – the BIOS just understands the the lower resolutions. To get a nice looking picture on wide-screen monitors, you have to distort the image like in the example I gave.

]]> http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2010/10/changing-the-boot-logo-in-slackware/comment-page-1/#comment-2455 jo feder Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:54:32 +0000 http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/?p=779#comment-2455 Hi, Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I was actually wondering why it has to end up with 640x480 ---I mean, is it possible to use a .bmp of 640x400 (since I have a 16:10 monitor ratio) ? I was able to edit my lilo.conf to boot at 640x480x256 by setting to vga=768 and it worked. Then I edited slack.bmp to 640x400 using GIMP but I had no success running it as lilo always rejects it.with "Fatal: Unsupported bitmap". In your example above, you chose to resize 853x480 to 640x480, a standard I believe to be widely used, and I think it is the right thing to do as there is no vesa mode for 853x480. My purpose for trying to use 640x400 is that I just want to try to maintain 16:10 ratio ---from the lilo bitmap of 640x400 till X display of 1152x720, ..and just experimenting. Again thanks for the info. Hi,

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I was actually wondering why it has to end up with 640×480 —I mean, is it possible to use a .bmp of 640×400 (since I have a 16:10 monitor ratio) ? I was able to edit my lilo.conf to boot at 640×480x256 by setting to vga=768 and it worked. Then I edited slack.bmp to 640×400 using GIMP but I had no success running it as lilo always rejects it.with “Fatal: Unsupported bitmap”. In your example above, you chose to resize 853×480 to 640×480, a standard I believe to be widely used, and I think it is the right thing to do as there is no vesa mode for 853×480. My purpose for trying to use 640×400 is that I just want to try to maintain 16:10 ratio —from the lilo bitmap of 640×400 till X display of 1152×720, ..and just experimenting. Again thanks for the info.

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