Need to test a monitor attached to a running server, so I'm looking for an application/utility to display a large color graphic. This must be possible to do without X because a splash screen comes up when this system boots. The best graphic to display obviously would be some kind of fullscreen test pattern. Anyone know where to get that?
tia, ken
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:30:08 -0400 ken wrote:
Need to test a monitor attached to a running server, so I'm looking for an application/utility to display a large color graphic. This must be possible to do without X because a splash screen comes up when this system boots. The best graphic to display obviously would be some kind of fullscreen test pattern. Anyone know where to get that?
You probably want the fbi image viewer that comes in the fbida rpm.
On 10/11/2013 06:38 PM Frank Cox wrote:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:30:08 -0400 ken wrote:
Need to test a monitor attached to a running server, so I'm looking for an application/utility to display a large color graphic. This must be possible to do without X because a splash screen comes up when this system boots. The best graphic to display obviously would be some kind of fullscreen test pattern. Anyone know where to get that?
You probably want the fbi image viewer that comes in the fbida rpm.
Thanks, Frank. But a yum search didn't turn up anything for me. Maybe it on some repo I'm not configured for. Do you happen to know which repo I could get it from?
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:29:56 -0400 ken wrote:
You probably want the fbi image viewer that comes in the fbida rpm.
Thanks, Frank. But a yum search didn't turn up anything for me. Maybe it on some repo I'm not configured for. Do you happen to know which repo I could get it from?
Name : fbida Arch : x86_64 Version : 2.07 Release : 8.el6 Size : 70 k Repo : epel Summary : FrameBuffer Imageviewer URL : http://linux.bytesex.org/fbida/ License : GPLv2+ Description : fbi displays the specified file(s) on the linux console using the : framebuffer device. PhotoCD, jpeg, ppm, gif, tiff, xwd, bmp and : png are supported directly. For other formats fbi tries to use : ImageMagick's convert.
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:01:44AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:29:56 -0400 ken wrote:
You probably want the fbi image viewer that comes in the fbida rpm.
Thanks, Frank. But a yum search didn't turn up anything for me. Maybe it on some repo I'm not configured for. Do you happen to know which repo I could get it from?
Name : fbida Arch : x86_64 Version : 2.07 Release : 8.el6 Size : 70 k Repo : epel Summary : FrameBuffer Imageviewer URL : http://linux.bytesex.org/fbida/ License : GPLv2+ Description : fbi displays the specified file(s) on the linux console using the : framebuffer device. PhotoCD, jpeg, ppm, gif, tiff, xwd, bmp and : png are supported directly. For other formats fbi tries to use : ImageMagick's convert.
There are Centos-compatible RPMs for it on epel:
# yum list available | grep -y fbida fbida.x86_64 2.07-8.el6 epel fbida-fbgs.x86_64 2.07-8.el6 epel
On 10/12/2013 12:24 PM Fred Smith wrote:
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:01:44AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:29:56 -0400 ken wrote:
You probably want the fbi image viewer that comes in the fbida rpm.
Thanks, Frank. But a yum search didn't turn up anything for me. Maybe it on some repo I'm not configured for. Do you happen to know which repo I could get it from?
Name : fbida Arch : x86_64 Version : 2.07 Release : 8.el6 Size : 70 k Repo : epel Summary : FrameBuffer Imageviewer URL : http://linux.bytesex.org/fbida/ License : GPLv2+ Description : fbi displays the specified file(s) on the linux console using the : framebuffer device. PhotoCD, jpeg, ppm, gif, tiff, xwd, bmp and : png are supported directly. For other formats fbi tries to use : ImageMagick's convert.
There are Centos-compatible RPMs for it on epel:
# yum list available | grep -y fbida fbida.x86_64 2.07-8.el6 epel fbida-fbgs.x86_64 2.07-8.el6 epel
Ah, it's available only for 64-bit architectures... why it's not showing for me.
So I guess I need to keep looking for a solution.
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:50:13 -0400 ken wrote:
So I guess I need to keep looking for a solution.
Have you considered compiling it from source, either the src rpm or the tarball should work.
I just tried compiling the tarball on this computer and it compiled instantly with a simple make command. I don't have a non-64 bit computer handy right at this second to try it on, but it would take you thirty seconds to try it on your machine.
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