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Been playing around with fbgetty, which is an alternative login prompt thingy for the linux framebuffer. Finally I’ve got it to display images, which was much harder than it should be because despite being documented in the man page, the @image option hasn’t actually been implemented!
What is implemented though is the running of external commands, so after a bit of googling and compiling I obtained the fbv program which now means I can have a nice piccy on my login screen (without having to bugger about with kernels to setup bootsplash).
Here is my first test, I’ll come up with something more original than the standard Tux pic later 
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This is the /etc/issue file that produces that:
\n\n\n\n\n\e[00m\e[01;34m –[ Welcome to `/usr/local/bin/issue.net` (kernel %r) ]– \e[00m
\t\e[0m\e[32m Hostname ……………….: \e[01;32m %n
\t\e[0m\e[32m Architecture ……………: \e[01;32m %m
\t\e[0m\e[32m Console ………………..: \e[01;32m %l
\t\e[0m\e[32m Terminal type …………..: \e[01;32m $TERM
\t\e[0m\e[32m Number of users connected ..: \e[01;32m %u
\t\e[0m\e[32m Date …………………..: \e[01;32m %d
\t\e[0m\e[32m Time …………………..: \e[01;32m %t
\e[00m\n
`/usr/local/bin/fbv -d 1 /home/gavin/logo_tux.png`