From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Cc: stepan@suse.de, raphael@arrivingarrow.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bootscreen
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:09:54 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301281509.h0SF9sGV001368@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1043765442.8675.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> from "Alan Cox" at Jan 28, 2003 02:50:42 PM
> > It's not too much to even state that almost any computer working with
> > Linux 2.4+ can do 800x600 or 1024x768. Anything below that can be
> > considered a special case, regarding the numbers out there. But that
> > does not influence the possibility of using a bootsplash graphics.
> > On a system you can't use it properly, you probably also would not
> > want it (i.e. use normal text mode boot instead of a framebuffer
> > driver)
>
> Lots of systems cannot do 800x600 or 1024x768. Some of them cannot
> do 640x480 very well but 640x480 is safe except for weird kit because
> of the VGA mode support.
Infact, better than using text mode with a custom font to draw a logo,
because some LCD screens display 720x400 as 640x400 by missing out one
pixel of each character.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-28 15:03 UTC|newest]
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2003-01-28 9:01 Bootscreen Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 9:52 ` Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-28 10:49 ` Bootscreen DervishD
2003-01-28 11:20 ` Bootscreen Robert Morris
2003-01-28 11:44 ` Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-28 11:48 ` Bootscreen Wichert Akkerman
2003-01-28 12:15 ` Bootscreen Robert Morris
2003-01-28 12:55 ` Bootscreen Alan Cox
2003-01-28 13:09 ` Bootscreen Wichert Akkerman
2003-01-28 13:47 ` Bootscreen Alan Cox
2003-01-28 14:06 ` Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-28 14:14 ` Bootscreen Richard B. Tilley (Brad)
2003-01-28 14:33 ` Bootscreen Robert Morris
2003-01-28 14:32 ` Bootscreen Wichert Akkerman
2003-01-28 14:45 ` Bootscreen Jos Hulzink
2003-01-28 14:47 ` Bootscreen Wichert Akkerman
2003-01-28 14:57 ` Bootscreen Richard B. Tilley (Brad)
2003-01-28 14:58 ` Bootscreen Wichert Akkerman
2003-01-28 15:07 ` Bootscreen Richard B. Tilley (Brad)
2003-01-28 15:14 ` Bootscreen Wichert Akkerman
2003-01-28 15:20 ` Bootscreen Richard B. Tilley (Brad)
2003-01-28 15:25 ` Bootscreen Wichert Akkerman
2003-01-29 10:19 ` Bootscreen Horst von Brand
2003-01-28 15:05 ` Bootscreen Alan Cox
2003-01-28 15:06 ` Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-29 9:57 ` Module security [Was: Re: Bootscreen] Horst von Brand
2003-01-28 14:53 ` Bootscreen Oliver Neukum
2003-01-28 13:22 ` Bootscreen Jos Hulzink
2003-01-28 14:35 ` Bootscreen Rogier Wolff
2003-01-28 12:08 ` Bootscreen Robert Morris
2003-01-28 12:17 ` Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-28 14:15 ` Bootscreen Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2003-01-28 18:46 ` Bootscreen H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-29 9:13 ` Bootscreen Horst von Brand
2003-01-29 9:35 ` Bootscreen Xavier Bestel
2003-01-29 13:19 ` Bootscreen Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2003-01-28 13:32 ` Bootscreen Stefan Reinauer
2003-01-28 13:46 ` Bootscreen Robert Morris
2003-01-28 14:38 ` Bootscreen Stefan Reinauer
2003-01-28 13:52 ` Bootscreen Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2003-01-29 8:06 ` Bootscreen Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-01-29 13:17 ` Bootscreen Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2003-01-29 15:48 ` Bootscreen Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-01-28 13:55 ` Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-28 14:28 ` Bootscreen Wichert Akkerman
2003-01-28 14:43 ` Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-28 14:45 ` Bootscreen Wichert Akkerman
2003-01-28 17:15 ` Bootscreen Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-28 12:10 ` Bootscreen Stefan Reinauer
2003-01-28 14:50 ` Bootscreen Alan Cox
2003-01-28 15:07 ` Bootscreen Stefan Reinauer
2003-01-28 15:09 ` John Bradford [this message]
2003-01-28 17:41 ` Bootscreen Erik Mouw
2003-01-28 20:11 ` Bootscreen Arador
2003-01-28 21:13 ` Bootscreen Bernd Eckenfels
2003-01-28 17:48 ` Bootscreen Martin J. Bligh
2003-01-28 19:24 ` Bootscreen Ingo Oeser
2003-01-28 18:13 ` Bootscreen Aaron Lehmann
2003-01-28 18:21 ` Bootscreen Prasad
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-28 10:33 AW: AW: Bootscreen Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 10:52 ` John Bradford
2003-01-28 13:16 ` Bootscreen Stefan Reinauer
[not found] <398E93A81CC5D311901600A0C9F29289469376@cubuss2>
2003-01-28 11:05 ` Bootscreen Alex Riesen
2003-01-28 11:38 ` Bootscreen Jos Hulzink
2003-01-28 13:13 Bootscreen Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 14:35 ` Bootscreen Xavier Bestel
2003-01-30 7:25 ` Bootscreen Pavel Machek
2003-01-31 17:40 ` Bootscreen Jörn Engel
2003-01-31 17:45 ` Bootscreen Pavel Machek
2003-01-28 14:11 AW: Bootscreen Raphael Schmid
2003-01-28 14:26 ` John Bradford
2003-01-28 14:48 ` Bootscreen Stefan Reinauer
2003-01-28 14:29 ` AW: Bootscreen Robert Morris
2003-01-28 14:59 ` Bootscreen Stefan Reinauer
2003-01-28 14:34 ` Bootscreen jeff millar
2003-01-28 14:40 ` Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-28 16:41 ` Bootscreen Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-28 21:48 Bootscreen Balram Adlakha
2003-01-28 21:59 ` Bootscreen John Bradford
2003-01-29 14:46 ` Bootscreen Denis Vlasenko
2003-01-29 19:52 ` Bootscreen Balram Adlakha
2003-01-30 6:53 ` Bootscreen Denis Vlasenko
2003-01-30 10:18 ` Bootscreen Bernd Eckenfels
2003-01-30 10:39 ` Bootscreen Helge Hafting
2003-01-30 13:54 ` Bootscreen Stefan Reinauer
2003-01-29 15:09 ` Bootscreen Horst von Brand
2003-01-29 8:30 Bootscreen Raphael Schmid
2003-01-29 8:35 Bootscreen Raphael Schmid
2003-01-29 17:53 ` Bootscreen Arador
2003-01-29 13:59 Bootscreen Raphael Schmid
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