From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: A couple questions related to fbsplash
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 12:45:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jq4q8m$b8u$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEH5T2MOrQ1ECFAiAivi_+C06VWHb+jY7ZL6ahqoZ_PNyvn7nQ@mail.gmail.com>
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. Compile the KMS driver in-kernel rather than as a module.
> 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. I use KDM and it switches to console 7 automatically.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 6:42 [gentoo-user] A couple questions related to fbsplash Paul Hartman
2012-05-30 9:45 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2012-05-31 3:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2012-05-31 7:09 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-06-01 1:36 ` Paul Hartman
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