How do I ....

[Outcast]

Take a screengrab from the dos prompt ?

I'm not talking about terminal /Konsole but ctrl + alt + F2 then login.
Yes I want to take a screeny of that text screen !!

If peeps press that combination and cant get back then press ctrl + alt + F7

Its bugging me thats all.

 

[Septh]

You can't, as the xWindow system isn't working at that point, at least this my understanding of it.
and its not the "dos prompt" its a bash prompt lol

 

[BigglesPiP]

No can do, the OS is in text mode at this point. You'd need to get the graphics card to take the screen-shot (if you have months to write a driver), or capture the image by some other means further down the line.

if your trying to capture the output of something then just ">>" or "2>&1 >>" it to a file.

If you need the input as well, try a logged gnu-screen session.

 

[pingwing]

Could just take a picture with a camera.... (sorry about the only alternative idea)

 

[Outcast]

Indeed it seems like the camera option is the only way. I posted this on Ubuntu forums as well. Fbgrab seems to do something but it asks the usual eleventy billion parameters or errors.

Oh well

btw.. it isn't BASH at that point... its tty

 

[Septh]

Bah BASH is closer than dos!!

 

[Outcast]

hehe... true.

I couldn't remember what it was myself.. I kept thinking Shell or cli

 

[.walls]

btw.. it isn't BASH at that point... its tty

um... it probably is bash, as bash is the default shell on just about every linux. Bash is running inside the virtual terminal - in this instance labelled tty (or /dev/tty), however it could just as easily be called vc, vt or a host of other things.

 

[Septh]

um... it probably is bash, as bash is the default shell on just about every linux. Bash is running inside the virtual terminal - in this instance labelled tty (or /dev/tty), however it could just as easily be called vc, vt or a host of other things.

Yeah! What he said!

 

[Outcast]

pwnd !!

 

[BillytheImpaler]

What exactly is it that you want to record? BigglesPiP's method of directing the text output that would normally go onto the screen into a text file you can read later is a fine idea for the vast majority of things you'd want to record.

 

[jas07]

Afraid its gotta be a camera, well thats about the easiest way tbh!