Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

[Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:25:19AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:

Hi,
 
> Yes, I agree, almost anything is more sane than code I posted :-(. My
> only requirement is that it works with radeonfb and similar low-level
> drivers (so that I can get suspend-to-ram to work) and that it gets
> past our branding people...   

I don't know about the branding people, but suspend-to-ram and radeonfb
shouldn't be a problem for fbsplash :)
 
> How many distros do use some variant of bootsplash? SuSE does, from
> above url I guess gentoo does, too... Does RedHat do something
> similar? [Or do they just set log-level to very high giving them clean
> look?] What about Debian?

As far as I know: SuSE uses bootsplash, Gentoo and PLD use fbsplash,
RedHat uses rhgb (100% userspace solution, based on xvesa, doesn't
provide graphical backgrounds on vt's - for that a kernel patch like
bootsplash or fbsplash is necessary). I don't know about Debian - they
probably have some (possibly unofficial) support for both bootsplash
and fbsplash.

Live long and prosper.
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