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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: Scampada on April 05, 2015, 07:57:55 PM

Title: Background image underlaying the gramebuffer console?
Post by: Scampada on April 05, 2015, 07:57:55 PM

Is it possible to set a background image in the framebuffer console?

No graphics-kernel;
No X;
No vga= in grub;

"load_video" && "set gfxpayload=1024x600-24" in the grub. Can I?

Title: Re: Background image underlaying the gramebuffer console?
Post by: Scampada on April 05, 2015, 08:08:16 PM

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=11368.0 (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=11368.0)

I believe the answer is hidden somewhere there. I need fbcondecor, but it needs somehow patched or rebuilt kernel. Or was it patched already? Investigating... any intelligence would be appreciated ;)

Title: Re: Background image underlaying the gramebuffer console?
Post by: curaga on April 06, 2015, 04:03:59 AM

Only possible with kernel patches as you found.

Title: Re: Background image underlaying the gramebuffer console?
Post by: Scampada on April 06, 2015, 04:58:39 AM

And it is not possible to use ttf fonts in framebuffer console? I've looked around and found no way.

Title: Re: Background image underlaying the gramebuffer console?
Post by: Juanito on April 06, 2015, 05:03:54 AM

If you can boot using uefi, there is the possibility to use different fonts (unicode.pf2 in the grub2-efi extension for example), but I don't believe the possibility exists with legacy-bios boot (I could be wrong).

Title: Re: Background image underlaying the gramebuffer console?
Post by: curaga on April 06, 2015, 05:05:00 AM

The grub font only affects grub I believe, the linux console can't use TTF fonts.

Title: Re: Background image underlaying the gramebuffer console?
Post by: Scampada on April 06, 2015, 05:12:27 AM

Well, then should I patch the kernel what exactly do I do?
I've downloaded a linux-kernel-patched.txz from there: http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/6.x/x86/release/src/kernel/

Why is it so big? About 70M of size. And then, should I just unzip it and compile as though it was some regular source?

Title: Re: Background image underlaying the gramebuffer console?
Post by: Juanito on April 06, 2015, 05:18:24 AM

There are several (many?) threads in these forums that explain what to do, but basically:

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$ make mrproper
[copy tinycore config .config]
$ make oldconfig
$ make

Title: Re: Background image underlaying the gramebuffer console?
Post by: Scampada on April 06, 2015, 12:57:42 PM

I found something of that... Don't know of what value...

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    FrameBuffer support

    Fontconfig + FreeType2 + TTF Fonts

    Framebuffer terminal which supports Fontconfig

Is there something like framebuffer terminal supporting ttf in TC? :)
Or that was just a chitchatting somewhere in the Web of no value?