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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:38:42 +0100
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To: James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org>
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Hi!

> > Fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash - is a feature that allows displaying
> > images in the background of consoles that use fbcon. The project is
> > partially descended from bootsplash. 
> 
> What are you trying to do exactly? I really don't see the point of this 
> patch.

At least some Debians, Gentoo and SUSE each use some variant of this
eye candy; each one with different bugs. It would be nice to at least
do the splash right (so that it does not require vesafb and therefore
allows working with suspend-to-RAM).
								Pavel
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