Hi,
What are the rules for the syslinux splash image? It looks like you
need a PNG that's 640x300, 4-bit colormap, indexed, and not very many
colors. Then this gets converted to an LSS with something like
pngtopnm splash.png | ./ppmtolss16 > splash.lss
ppmtolss16 doesn't seem to work on 8.0. It complains about an
unexpected EOF in the file. But under 7.3 it runs fine. However,
running the above on an 8 bit colormap, 20 colors in the color map,
file generated from Gimp gives me:
% pngtopnm splash.png | ./ppmtolss16 > splash.lss
./ppmtolss16: Warning: color palette truncated (4 colors ignored)
192000 pixels, 27707 bytes, (71.14% compression)
and all but 2 or 3 colors remain. (Not a pretty picture.)
How do you create a 4 bit colormap PNG file? Gimp doesn't seem to want
to. I can limit the howmany colors in the color map but that doesn't
make a difference.
What other rules apply to making this file so it works properly?
Jack Neely
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Linux Realm Kit Administration and Development
PAMS Computer Operations at NC State University
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