On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 13:28 +0000, Martin Alderson wrote: > Is it possible to have a very simple boot screen, ala Windows XP and > MacOSX? It should be animated so that people can see if the computer > is frozen? > > Basically it would be very good if as soon as you went into grub, > about 2 seconds later you had a graphical boot screen. > I personally think this would be nice, yeah. > Can this be done without using X? Is there some sort of really simple > X server-style application that could do this? > I think there are kernel patches out there for doing this (though the framebuffer device) although I'm not sure if they are upstream nor what state they are in; I suppose the kernel dudes would know. Cheers, David -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
