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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] splashutils needs a maintainer
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:05:33 -0500
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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 escribi=C3=B3:
> >> 28.01.2013 23:26, Pacho Ramos =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:
> >>> Then, looks like no alternative is in good shape on Gentoo. What is
> >>> Sabayon using? They look to have plymouth ebuilds in their overlay (b=
ut
> >>> 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 We have plymouth ebuilds in tree, but they are outdated(see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=3D430478).
> >>
> >
> > 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=
=20
> that I could never get the latter to work, whereas the former has worked=
=20
> on every machine I've tried to use it on (server, desktop, and virtual=20
> machine).

IIRC plymouth requires KMS so if your driver doesn't have KMS support
then it doesn't have plymouth support.