[gentoo-dev] Fw: Re: aurora...

[gentoo-dev] Fw: Re: aurora...

[Spider]

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as discussed in #gentoo-dev today, I got it back and commented so I'm
forwarding here.


I dont have the time, nor the skills to take over the project, but since
I know the guy RL I can do some interchange and other stuff necessary.

//Spider

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From: Egil Moeller <redhog@mini.dhs.org>
To: Spider <spider@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: aurora...
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 02:21:43 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0205280213470.5296-100000@callcc.mini.dhs.org>

> 23:38:39] <mjc> Spid|NOT: lets get an aurora package going =)
In gentoo or what?

> 23:38:59] <Spid|NOT> mjc: I think the one in mandrake is a bit more
> up-to-date though
Prolly, they haven't submitted any patches to me :( But on the other hand,
they don't know very well how it works (they never really asked me to
explain it)...

> 23:39:02] <Spid|NOT> I can ask him
> 23:39:08] <mjc> Spid|NOT: good point
> 23:39:43] <stroke> once upon a time auroa was the Mandrake cool gfx boot
> screen
Haha! Like back in the 8.0 times...

> 23:39:52] <Spid|NOT> yeah
> 23:39:58] <stroke> auroa->aurora
> 23:40:08] <-- BaSS has quit ("BitchX: it isn't only my script, its also
> my client")
> 23:40:09] <Spid|NOT> he made it because he needed something to show
> bootscripts on his fixed-sync screen
> 23:40:10] <stroke> k
> 23:40:10] <Spid|NOT> ;)
> 23:40:24] <stroke> :)
> 23:41:35] <kainz> is there something like aurora that just uses fb?
Yep, there are actually two "modules" to Aurora for this, both based on
the uggly-hack WsLib.

> 23:41:59] <Spid|NOT> Well,depends... his gfx-lib is statically linked
> and so on
> 23:42:01] <Spid|NOT> quite interesting
Haha! But, OK, it _is_ a small lib, and it does what it needs to do I
guess...

> 23:42:13] <kainz> or: can aurora chain into a ?dm without restarting the
> X server?
> 23:42:24] <Spid|NOT> I think so.. lets ask :)
Not atm, but it would not be impossible to do that. On the other hand,
there is a reason to keep Aurora running on some other VC, just in case
someone presses CTRL-ALT-DEL or runs init 0/6, to show the reboot/shutdown
procedure too... But OK, that could be hacked. But you could still not see
for example a switch between runlevel 4 and 5 (if both allows your running
X-session). But perheaps you could just modify the monitor itself (the
Gtk-program) to be runnable as a stand-alone progrram that the user can
run to change runlevel from within X (if they are root) and to monitor
their service startup/stops...

Anyway, would you, or someone else near you on gentoo, be interrested in
taking over the developement? I could give you a nice IRL crash-course if
you want... And of course you would get access to modify the
aurora.mini.dhs.org website...

Regards,
Egil

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