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 1Qdq4t-0000ig-EH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:49:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E86B21C07D; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 20:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C1C21C07D for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 20:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwb7 with SMTP id 7so3618122qwb.40 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:47:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=A9BeGCAMOCY/tGulSqnCeBL0hDCUNyzombEA4w1lUa8=; b=pA+O11a0gN/tAP2As2z+ARg4M1t9/p9R0XthE5tYewwKNpMQbHESibXwQpCiudNBZr M/olJK8IZi/0g1OEaWT17AF5AQ08zfANvwrfBSCxxLCNdfNMmNVpGz7ILi0oe0qNm3/c KT/A65nOo2PwTezmu34ioGs60INM2eplOEjYo= 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 Received: by 10.224.204.66 with SMTP id fl2mr5122949qab.78.1309812448930; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:47:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.19.204 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:47:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1678969.Rfgp9b7j66@nazgul> References: <87wrfzm4bv.fsf@newsguy.com> <87liwd29y6.fsf@newsguy.com> <1678969.Rfgp9b7j66@nazgul> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:47:28 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about boot with framebuffer From: Mark Knecht To: Alan McKinnon Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d0825a2866fd185ba2ccf082e8b896b3 On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wro= te: > On Monday 04 July 2011 11:20:43 Mark Knecht did opine thusly: >> > The way I've been doing this only required `vesa' or `uvesa' and >> > some special kernel line stuff. =C2=A0None of the X related stuff is >> > necessary. >> > >> > From covici's post... I think I may need to say uvesa where I've >> > been saying vesa. >> > >> > I'm going to try that some time today. =C2=A0Its already enabled in >> > my kernel >> >> I'm a little confused by his post also, but I've never run a machine >> without Xorg so maybe it's a technical point. With a framebuffer I >> believe you can get a boot screen like the Install CD - a bunch of >> little Tux's across the top - so you're doing graphics at that >> point but you're not running X? >> >> I was curious about this topic awhile back wondering if you could >> run a Gentoo VM with only a framebuffer and get any graphics at >> all, or is it just that the framebuffer is used to give you more >> control over the console font/height/width selection. >> >> (I've never run a framebuffer, if that's not obvious!) > > bootsplash does not run under X (well, on redhat it used to, but you > really don't want to go there) - this should be obvious as you don't > see the X start-up sequence happening at early boot time. > > There are many things boot splash could use for displaying images > (fbcon etc etc) or even something of it's own invention. I'm not > familiar enough with it to say how it really does it. > > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > so does bootsplash run using framebuffer or is it completely different? - Mark