On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 00:03 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > David Zeuthen (davidz@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > So, in fact, if I boot my laptop with the kernel option vga=0x0317 > > (1024x768x24), then right after grub, I get the Tux log in the top along > > with scrolling kernel messages. Almost there.. > > The question here is... > > a) do you want to use vga16fb/vesafb everywhere (not portable to all > arches) Well, if it's there we might as well use it. > b) do you want to change the boot model depending on how supported > someone's particular card is for fb mode in the kernel? > > Not sure how useful this is just for hiding some kernel spew. :) > Ideally the time from grub to gdm should be < 10 secs anyway, so a blank screen without progress bars will do I guess. I guess Seth, Bryan or Diana can tell us why kernel spew is bad from a UI point of view. They might even tell us we need the progress bar anyway, dunno. Btw, it is my understanding that fb, drm and X (they all touch the hardware ) might merge in the future (which could give us oops() on top of X as in e.g. Solaris IIRC). Possibly far away. I could be wrong though. Ideally, it would be good if we could just setup the monitor to do the target resolution whenever the kernel boots and X will just take over from there. I'm sure some of the X guys can enlighten us here. Cheers, David -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
