From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SZw6t-0005LI-3H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 May 2012 03:31:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1D42E07AF; Thu, 31 May 2012 03:31:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50376E0586 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 03:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lagu2 with SMTP id u2so426622lag.40 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:29:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1NzmVCKvvcQ6RFXOyt0rkL+LJVODbvZFZz9oCBKXDNo=; b=ukeepzHnOZHX5i4O3LQM42tTurSTXanqdef5NmyUt5g1VXjE2Voc66vqz3xLahkQAR tilEGcdy+3V+GHzR85IvqFuVTetWGCEPrfGx2gPcFV+MxM6O6GghoBydITxDUHb+l6Ev qhTvijEI3Khul5gsrh2nuvveiNhx/67LOAC3UWIrTmb1qU7hH6YEiiNbKOsMeKAG5Xjs PSpAwzjd5FAT22lozwzd2TDSncOOq5mXky8PgFUTzYwvmOefTkQrU+ElkjIG2wY6jIfz aGpP7G1UqYGB3yKVsn0G4JGRsBOnUemVal/r3WHILr8i7w+Jq0Xrh5vtLvX1wjmGvzpf sXkA== Received: by 10.112.99.98 with SMTP id ep2mr256588lbb.45.1338434963273; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.77.4 with HTTP; Wed, 30 May 2012 20:29:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Hartman Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 22:29:02 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: CFy8y4dv_m_IIyVH2zp2pF09dAo Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A couple questions related to fbsplash To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 418da0e1-d57e-4bdf-b8fa-90070c8cdfb4 X-Archives-Hash: 8f5f7f122140769e94b48ec42f46efd0 On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote= : > On 30/05/12 09:42, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> In all my years of Gentoo I've never set up fbsplash and fbcondecor, >> so I finally did so on my old laptop. It all worked, pretty easy to >> set up -- however, there are 2 things I have questions about: >> >> 1) I see much of OpenRC's colorful output before the fbsplash kicks >> in. Is there any trick to prevent that stuff from showing and/or >> making the splash screen show up earlier? > > > Yes. =A0Compile the KMS driver in-kernel rather than as a module. Thanks, that fixed it. I saw my OpenRC through "Waiting for uevents to be processed" before, so that makes perfect sense now. Radeon starts in dmesg at 0.3 seconds instead of 2.8 seconds. :) I see Tux for a microsecond, then the splash screen appears and flashes black three times before stabilizing. I don't think it is the display changing modes (the backlight stays on), it just looks like it's switching between blank screen and back to showing the graphics. It happens at the very beginning of the splash, before root is remounted and the progress bar is moving. I'm using dracut's gensplash module to generate the initrd, maybe it's doing something funny. >> 2) With the fbsplash enabled, xdm (slim) starts in the background. I >> have to alt-7 to see the graphical login screen. xdm starts at default >> runlevel. With splash disabled, xdm (slim) starts in the foreground. >> Why is that? > > > Sounds like a bug. =A0I use KDM and it switches to console 7 automaticall= y. I just tried plain xdm as well as slim and both wind up in the background when splash is enabled. Weird. What specifically happens is: I see the graphical login screen for a split second, then it changes back to tty1, I briefly see the last parts of OpenRC finishing and then the console login prompt. alt-7 will take me back to the graphical login screen and it works normally once I'm there. I will keep hunting.