From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I6wri-0004xW-Nl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:05:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l66N3jPA007882; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 23:03:45 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l66MxvYN001634 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:59:57 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so872851ugf for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:59:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=GPAl7HK06+69lsItpTujibcSsV1O2y8YkxvR4FpKCKlq8PWf/6Ai4LlK6KzKQLIg1K1TdiOAOqzaDLjBJkVuTPmNWGSptfNwgK0DVV17J9hDw6I3ns5Jm9tynv6++duer+DKAVhbUUVbBfaHvSfmjdrhpDjt3tg0r7+XHbSvFj4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=hKxk74xErTPK1ZYoHbm3iS5Qy274IdqiVSuwEMqMr2fUYeeSv60uGrM05VyhhRxJy1jpfy/TmOCokOWstswymJVUEs3bB39eaQL8ayVLShCnqQ2Ayxf67Z6zd1aSzSbwYKxa+sQR0lAD8OuX1RvzbWWYx7oO9LJG7UyeObN1+LI= Received: by 10.82.183.19 with SMTP id g19mr2796700buf.1183762797437; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.163.6 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 15:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9e0cf0bf0707061559w3f2d5a07nb0b63507f0f7656d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 01:59:57 +0300 From: "Alon Bar-Lev" Sender: alon.barlev@gmail.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-gfx/bootsplash In-Reply-To: <20070706222707.GA24270@spock.one.pl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070706213812.GA21604@spock.one.pl> <9e0cf0bf0707061506h1b92bac0x6437cb85e0384630@mail.gmail.com> <20070706222707.GA24270@spock.one.pl> X-Google-Sender-Auth: c60f2c6d1457cd25 X-Archives-Salt: 40c85bda-381d-40f0-ae2e-9eeb2973ba20 X-Archives-Hash: 7a8437ac5cc98a2d616070c230b64be8 On 7/7/07, Michal Januszewski 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list