From: Erik Rigtorp <erik@rigtorp.com>
To: "Diego Calleja García" <diegocg@teleline.es>
Cc: Stefan Reinauer <stepan@openbios.org>,
hch@infradead.org, pavel@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
pavel@ucw.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swsusp bootsplash support
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:49:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040709214940.GA9176@linux.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040709224400.4f44303a.diegocg@teleline.es>
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:44:00PM +0200, Diego Calleja García wrote:
> Is really neccesary to use a X server? Why not just modify the init scripts to
> use fbi to show a image? Is not that the kernel takes a lot of time to boot and
> run init - even windows XP shows an ascii bar while it loads their kernel,
So you know the internals of the NT kernel? That bar is probably just the
bootloader loading the kernel from disk :).
> that period of time doesn't takes too much time and it doesn't annoy anyone.
> You could switch off the printk output too, so the users doesn't see any
> kernel message at all while init runs and the scripts puts the image in the
> framebuffer console.
That is the "clean" approach, but what I wanted was something nice to look
at while booting or suspending my laptop. Whether it be a retro ascii thingy
or a fancy graphical thingy doesn't really matter.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-09 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-08 11:05 [PATCH] swsusp bootsplash support Erik Rigtorp
2004-07-08 13:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-08 20:48 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-08 21:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-08 22:52 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-08 22:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-08 23:23 ` Dave Jones
2004-07-09 5:15 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-09 11:55 ` Dave Jones
2004-07-09 12:19 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-07-09 14:27 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-09 22:00 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-07-09 15:56 ` Erik Rigtorp
2004-07-12 13:43 ` Jan Rychter
2004-07-12 3:21 ` Eric Altendorf
2004-07-10 12:34 ` Pavel Machek
2004-07-14 11:27 ` Jan Rychter
2004-07-09 8:36 ` Erik Rigtorp
2004-07-09 14:48 ` Stefan Reinauer
2004-07-09 15:01 ` Dave Jones
2004-07-09 20:44 ` Diego Calleja García
2004-07-09 21:49 ` Erik Rigtorp [this message]
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