I've used prev. versions of penguin patch, (I even wrote and posted
one version of my own), but:
> Moved the old code to the trash, the new one sits in the console.c
> initialisation code. It clears the screen, sets up a scroll region (as
> suggested by Alan), loads the font and draws the penguin. This time it
> gets *not* scrolled off the screen. Becauce the PC BIOS is'nt used, it
> should work even on a alpha box (if you have a VGA), but I can't test
> this...
>
> Well this has a few drawbacks:
> * shift-pageup does not work with scroll regions
So, instead of loosing penguin, you loose messages. Sorry, but
messages are much more precious to my heart than penguin is. You've
just made your patch unusable.
> * the font gets screwed up a bit (some chars are redefined for the
> penguin). But hey, don't you load your favorite font with setfont
> anyway?
> * you have to turn off the scroll region later somewhere in your
> /etc/rc.* files. Good place is right before setfont. You can do that
> for example with:
> echo -ne '\0337\033[r\0338'
Pavel
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