Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doesn't the nvidia driver supports KMS? Because if it does, then you
SHOULD NOT pass any VGA mode at all... that's one of th enice things
on KMS.



2011/9/5 Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.
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