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 1SZfVS-0003VG-W8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 May 2012 09:47:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E4F7E058A; Wed, 30 May 2012 09:47:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92074E02FB for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 09:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239601B401E for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 09:46:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.202 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.202 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.192, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UX7jEx__uIYt for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 09:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 496D81B4001 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 09:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SZfTo-0004Zb-Cr for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 30 May 2012 11:46:12 +0200 Received: from athedsl-342983.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.195.101]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 11:46:12 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-342983.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 11:46:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: A couple questions related to fbsplash Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 12:45:25 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-342983.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120529 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: ab0ba0f9-58b2-4af0-9d61-a1e9d7b23179 X-Archives-Hash: 8e349551aeef125df569ab5c7bd9f424 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.