On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 21:36 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > Brian Tate escribió: > > 2) Switch to graphical Mode in initrd, draw an animation.... > > I have an animation now in rhgb, and as a bonus I can see all my > > services loading if I hit the "more" button. I trust this feature will > > not go away? > > Ever heard of Linux BootSplash? Is way better than RHGB in that > BootSplash (upon which I'm assuming they're basing this) does not > require to launch an early Xserver (in other words, it consumes quite a > bit of resources to do that and can't be done as soon as the kernel is > loaded, where as BootSplash can, as it is part of the kernel image). The idea isn't to use bootsplash because bootsplash is not at all upstream and basically has zero chance of getting there. Instead, work is underway so that the kernel can do native modesetting for various graphics chipsets. Then we'll just go the same mode and avoid the mode switch and corresponding monitor flash. Jeremy -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
