Thanks for sharing this info. Like I said, I don't know much about this
Penguin, thing.... sounds much simpler than I originally thought based on
what I saw on kernel
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Doug Gray wrote:
> I have the penguin when i boot up. All i did was when i installed kernel
> version 2.1.130 with slackware 3.6, it had a place for my Matrox Millennium
> g200 card. It didn't ever ask me if i wanted the Penguin, just if i wanted
> to enable all of the features for my video card. I'm pretty sure it has to
> do with the video settings of your card, the buffering that was mentioned
> before is a good guess.
>
>
> >
> >On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Yates, Larry wrote:
> >> Seriously, I had other reasons for checking out
> >> the 2.2 kernel, but I 'really' wanted to see
> >> that penguin...
> >> What did I do wrong?
> >You have to check out the docs..I am probably forgetting..but I _believe_
> >you have to enable it when you run make config/make menuconfig or
> >whatever. Then you have to set it up in lilo. It won't just show the
> >penguin by default just because you have the new kernel. Also your mobo
> >has to support it. This is what I recall:
> >
> >configure vesafb into the kernel, add vga=ask to /etc/lilo.conf, press 305
> >when asked for the mode. If you get invalid mode it's due to the mobo, I
> >_think_.
> >
> >Now I could be dead wrong on this. I don't run the penguin so your
> >mileage may vary. Happy penguining (sic) .
> >-M
> >
> >
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