Am Freitag 31 Juli 2009 schrieb Johannes Engel:
I agree with you. However, splashy needs an fb console. Thus my question would be, if we can use the fb device created by the KMS drivers for the devices mentioned above. That would guarantee a smooth transition without flickering to the X.Org display. For other devices the VGA fb console should do the trick.
I'm not aware of any plans to make KMS default - and my own experience with the 965GM don't really hint we should change that ;(
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.
Can we keep the kernel quiet until fb console is set up? That would get rid of this problem.
Actually "quiet" is the default already, but you still some kind of flicker when my laptop goes from whatever mode grub uses into a black 1024x786x16 and then into blue splashy. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org