Am Mittwoch 24 Juni 2009 schrieb Holger Macht:
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 19:12 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
On Saturday 13 June 2009 09:40:16 Rastislav Krupanský wrote:
Someone needs to do a test with both available solutions and then we need to judge.
Can users/volunteers do it? What is needed to test and how?
As I'm not aware of anyone working on it, I'm not aware of anything to test - other than testing how to replace bootsplash with splashy and/or plymouth.
Johannes Engel (CC) already did some initial work and tests with splashy in regard to regular booting. I remember him having problems with parallel booting because the bootsplash interaction is hard coded in /sbin/startpar. Attaching his /etc/rc.splash which worked (at that time) with RUN_PARALLEL=no for reference if someone wants to pick up his work.
OK, I looked into this yesterday and there are some problems: - plymouth is out as it requires DRM and while fedora has tons of drm patches in their kernel I don't see us going there - perhaps 11.3 if everything needed settled in Xorg and kernel. - bootsplash works, but is limiting the artists and is only used for booting, not for suspend. And it has no support for e.g. error boxes and password queries - splashy is from what my experiments easy to fix, it has support for not so useful effects (you can emulate them in bootsplash using mng anims, but you need a tool to create these), displaying errors in truetype fonts and getting password queries. suspend & resume already use it, so we have some experience with it - and a package ready. The problems I faced with splashy are: it flickers one more often than bootsplash as the kernel will setup the framebuffer and detect hardware and _then_ splashy comes up to paint over it. With bootsplash the kernel will display an initial graphic and _then_ the userspace will take over showing a progress bar. And I didn't yet experiment to see how we can go from initrd to booting, but that should be possible - splashy has chroot support. Now I wonder if we can leave the bootsplash kernel patch in and use it only to display the initial graphic. My experiments were with a vanilla kernel. Oppinions? Volunteers? :) Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org