> > Wait screen, then just hangs", which would then require an
> > engineer visit, as opposed to, for example, "it says Obtaining IP
> > Address... then hangs"
> I do have a solution for that. Just make the image 640x440 instead
> 640x480, and have the initscripts output on one of the lower lines
> only, always over-writing the previous message. That way, the
> support engineer would know what's going wrong and you'd still have
> a cute picture.
At the moment, the framebuffer reserves a few lines for the Tux icons,
and uses the rest for text. Why not just modify that code to achieve
what you want, (a large logo, and a text window).
You could do that on the Atari 65XE, have a text mode window at the
bottom of a graphics screen :-)
John
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