On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Christopher A. Williams <chriswfedora@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 18:34 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:<snip...>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:52 +0000, "Jóhann B.
> Guðmundsson" wrote:
> First of all
> Nvidia does not work and so far and there is
> nothing that indicates it will work in the
> near future.
>
> Truly a bummer! Given the large number of nVidia card
> users there are, I
> would think this should be more of a priority. Please
> don't let this
> turn into a philosophical discussion (aka a flame
> fest) on nVidia vs.
> others. A lot of people use nVidia cards - we need to
> deal with that and
> respond to the end user population accordingly...
>
>
> Not philosophical. Just a matter of not having the source code
> to fix the proprietary drivers. However the reverse
> engineering effort can yield some results albeit in a delayed
> manner. Refer
>
>
> http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-startup/
>Interesting... I just tried appending "vga=0x318" to my kernel options.
> If I append "vga=0x318" to my kernel options in menu.lst for example,
> i can see the nice plymouth effects (GeForce 8500 GTS) So would it
> hurt if we would add this option as the default in grub as a
> (temporary) workaround? Are there cards that don't scale well with
> "vga=0x318" ?
It didn't work outright, but...
...It DID error out and give me a list of scanned VGA options. I
selected one of them at random (vga=0x323) and "Graphical Plymouth" came
to life in all its glory.
Given the other feedback, this seems to also work for nVidia cards.
So, why COULDN't we have Plymouth (or a set of appropriate kernel
options) do something like:
1) scan for an appropriate and usable VESA mode for these cards
2) Upon discovering there's a really nice one we can use, go with that
one
3) Then fail back to text mode only after nothing available in a
reasonable VESA mode works.
Solves the problem from what I can tell...
Cheers,
Chris
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Sounds nice to me, but I reckon we won't see that in F10.
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