On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Stephen Warren wrote: > >> >> As pointed out by other people: What about nv and nouvea users; obviously >> those drivers can modeset, and the source is available. > > Nv and "source available" is kind of a stretch from what I heard, it is > pretty obfuscated. Nobody seems to be working on it except Nvidia. A fair > amount of the interest in Nouvea is around just purely 2D but with more > clarity in the source code. Nouvea is still considered pretty experimental > and a fast moving codebase. If you are using it, modesetting is probably not > the thing that would be bothering you much. However Richard Hughes or David > Airlie can probably give you more details on that. > >>> Plymouth has a reasonable fallback as well anyway. >> >> OK. This question wasn't directly answered the last time I asked. What is >> the fallback? > > Wouldn't it be better to know about that before criticizing? > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBetterStartup > > " Plymouth, that starts earlier (even before / is mounted!), doesn't require > an X server, and gets rid of a lot of the noise during startup. > > Plymouth will requires DRM kernel modesetting drivers to get pretty > graphics, but will have a text mode fallback for systems without driver > support." > If anyone else was like me wondering "DRM??", in this context it means "Direct Rendering Modules" -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
