Question

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:14:00PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:51:09PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >
> >Indeed. Using OpenLinux from The Company Whose Name I Shall Not Mention,
> >you could press Ctrl+d to dump PNG screenshots from the installer into the
> >RAM disk's /tmp filesystem. You had to move them out of /tmp before 
> >rebooting because they would go away, but it was a darn handy feature 
> >for taking screenshots for manuals and such.
> 
> Is that ctrl-d documented somewhere?

No.

> >In your case, Bill, you might be able to send the console output to
> >a serial port and take your screenshots that way. Another method is
> >to load the console framebuffer and then do, more or less, 
> >
> ># cp /dev/fb0 somefile
> >
> >I don't know what the output format is, but this is a start. 
> 
> That could be interesting, particularly if (a) it's portable on the
> versions of Linux I want to document, and (b) the format is something
> useful.  It could require a fair quantity of ramdisk as the JPEG files from
> my 2.1 megapixel camera required a bit over 25MB before cropping and
> cleaning up with the gimp.

It should be portable, provided the Linux you have has framebuffer 
support and the machines have reasonable, VESA-compliant graphics
adapters.

Kurt