On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:03:57PM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote: > it's not that simple. > If you want to have it gone, add > @reboot echo "" > /proc/pdc/lcd > in your root crontab :)
BTW, If anyone really wants scrolling, this script should do it. It has to use character 16 for spaces, which is a bit broken -- YMMV. ==================== #!/bin/bash STR="Linux $(uname -r) " END="" # Prevent the PDC from stripping leading spaces by # using character 16 (octal 20) as a space... STR="$(echo "$STR" | tr ' ' '\20')" while(true); do echo "${STR}${END}" > /proc/pdc/lcd END="${END}${STR:0:1}" STR="${STR:1}" if [ -z "${STR:-}" ]; then STR="${END}" END="" fi sleep 0.25 done ==================== The character set is interesting: 1-8 for the disk/network/heartbeat symbols 32-127 are the standard ascii characters, except that: 92 is a yen symbol 126 is a left arrow 127 is a right arrow 128-159 are unused 160-254 seem to be a mix of japanese, greek and accented roman letters 240 is an empty box 255 is a filled in square Hope that helps, -- Stuart Brady -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]