Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-gfx/bootsplash

["Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl@gentoo.org>]

On 7/7/07, Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 01:06:07AM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>
> >  I think we should have user space splash... As fbsplash does not work
>
> splashutils is a _userspace_ splash.  fbsplash isn't, but then it only
> provides the "verbose" mode (background pictures on system consoles) and
> there is no way of doing that in userspace (other than implementing the
> whole console system in userspace, which has indeed been proposed and
> might get done one day).

I think what important to user is the silent mode where graphical
progress can be shown.
Maybe run X or something simpler?

>
> >  with all video cards and last time I checked the whole framebuffer in
>
> Which fb driver doesn't it work with?

i915, even if splash gets working X does not.
A lot of issues there.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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