Re: Bootscreen

Alan Cox
2003-01-28T14:42:06Z

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:10, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> 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.