On 4/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon sharp</b> <<a href="mailto:jon@jonsharp.net">jon@jonsharp.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Actually, I love the ASCII art idea! I don't know why I didn't consider<br>that before. I use the aalib output filter for mplayer all the time.<br>Anyway, I was, of course, thinking of binary images, but I actually
<br>think this would satisfy me for the most part.<br></blockquote></div><br>Paul just reminded me that there's a function in yaboot.c called print_message_file(), which will read /etc/yaboot.msg and print it to screen. Put something in there and see if that works for you.
<br><br>Try some of the ones generated here: <a href="http://www.network-science.de/ascii/">http://www.network-science.de/ascii/</a><br><br><pre>____ ____ ___ .______ ______ ______ .___________.<br>\ \ / / / \ | _ \ / __ \ / __ \ | |
<br> \ \/ / / ^ \ | |_) | | | | | | | | | `---| |----`<br> \_ _/ / /_\ \ | _ < | | | | | | | | | | <br> | | / _____ \ | |_) | | `--' | | `--' | | |
<br> |__| /__/ \__\ |______/ \______/ \______/ |__| <br> </pre>Maybe Paul can seed /etc/yaboot.msg with something interesting (like the above), which would make this functionality more visible, as I didn't know about it...
<br><br>:-Dustin<br><br>