Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 01:24:33 AM Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> On 09/05/2011 11:50 PM, Roger Luedecke wrote:
> > On Monday, September 05, 2011 12:59:58 PM Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> > > On 09/05/2011 07:06 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> > > > On 2011/09/05 11:44 (GMT+0200) Ralf Lang composed:
> > > > > it can be pushed to make us all happy.
> > > >
> > > > That's impossible, unless its removal turns out to be a whole lot less
> > > > destructive and more thorough than it is on Mandriva or Fedora. Nothing
> > > > about Plymouth can make me happy. I'm only happy when traditional 
boot
> > > > messages show up on tty1 same as before Plymouth and its 
predecessors,
> > > > in the same non-GUI video mode that tty[1-6] ultimately use to print
> > > > legible text.
> > >
> > > I personally knows spyhawk, who start trying to package plymouth in
> > > openSUSE last year. There's a lot of step that need to be resolved to
> > > get it inside.
> > > First is seems to not work so well or even not at all with all proprio
> > > drivers like nvidia and fglrx. (Can free driver compete actually : it
> > > seems not in the 3d world and accelerated needs that our 2 main desktop
> > > need like kde4x and Gnome3x )
> > > Then it need also quite amount of patch against kdm/gdm/lightdm/xdm 
and
> > > those seems to be the most problematic.
> > >
> > > In the meantime spyhawk has to change some of his priority (work mainly)
> > > but confess that was a terrible time ...
> > >
> > > One day perhaps I will have the final word about this story.
> > > But the first step is to find a brave (dumb?) contributors that are able
> > > to package plymouth and then we will be able to give it a try. Best
> > > time, next week in osc11, there's several packaging workshop, and you
> > > can meet most of the key people in Nuremberg.
> > >
> > > ps : to those who mix a bit thing, we are using bootsplash actually for
> > > the whole start/end sequence. splashy is only used and linked against
> > > the suspend things. (and yes sucks actually)
> >
> > The install of the NVidia proprietary driver breaks the VGA mode passed
> > to plymouth. It is rather simple to fix though. We could package with
> > the RPM fro the driver a small script that repairs that change so that
> > the user sees no change.
>
> My quadro start in full hd screen 1920x1080 (even the grub splash)
> and bootsplash use the what I indicate as vga mode
> vga=0x34d
>
> For sure, this mode is proposed natively by my gfx.
> I never see the nvidia installer trying to change those params
This is with Plymouth, splashy doesn't get interfered with (anymore) by the 
NVidia.
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