From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:05:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1359849933.10606.140661186052849.7D23BAD6@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <510D67D7.4060100@gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013, at 02:24 PM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote:
> On 2/2/2013 13:19, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > El mar, 29-01-2013 a las 15:55 +0400, Sergey Popov escribió:
> >> 28.01.2013 23:26, Pacho Ramos пишет:
> >>> Then, looks like no alternative is in good shape on Gentoo. What is
> >>> Sabayon using? They look to have plymouth ebuilds in their overlay (but
> >>> not in "for-gentoo" one, then, it probably has some incompatibility
> >>> Gentoo :/)
> >>
> >> We have plymouth ebuilds in tree, but they are outdated(see
> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430478).
> >>
> >
> > Could anyone summarize the advantages of splashutils over plymouth? As
> > both look to be needed of some love in Gentoo, maybe would be better to
> > focus on later one (that is the preferred option in most distributions
> > and is actively developed)
> >
> As a user, I can say that one advantage of splashutils over plymouth is
> that I could never get the latter to work, whereas the former has worked
> on every machine I've tried to use it on (server, desktop, and virtual
> machine).
IIRC plymouth requires KMS so if your driver doesn't have KMS support
then it doesn't have plymouth support.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-03 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-27 22:06 [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer Pacho Ramos
2013-01-27 23:25 ` Alex Legler
2013-01-28 19:26 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-01-28 21:41 ` Fabio Erculiani
2013-01-29 11:55 ` Sergey Popov
2013-02-02 19:19 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-02-02 19:24 ` Dustin C. Hatch
2013-02-03 0:05 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2013-01-29 8:05 ` Alexey Shvetsov
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