El Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:04:43 +0100 Christian Metzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> > > > I haven't tried any of them, but I guess whatever you choose you > > will need a way to tell it the progress, so a new plugin is needed. > > It should be easy, as it's only a subset of the cpout plugin. > > Well, tells me that it should be possible with that or does it need > to be altered? It needs a little modifications, I could do them some weekend, I only need to get an idea of how to interact with the splash program, but I'm sure it will not take too much. > > > > You may want to look at the splashout plugin: > > http://www.initng.org/browser/under_construction/splashout > > > > The code is somewhat old... > > Yes, 3 years, i see. > > Hoped there would be already something, but all this seems to be > rather new to distribution defaults. One more thing to think that we > should have it. But writing a new plugin makes my planning of a new > release somehow more diffcult. > That one is a splash implementation itself, so it's a lot more complex compared to what we need to make updates to the status of a splash daemon. > >> One more thing is that initng blocks the first console, is it > >> possible to move it to another one? If not, no problem, users have > >> to get used to it! :-) > > > > You can use chvt to change the tty, or the quiet_when_up parameter, > > and start a getty on tty1. > > Ok, perhaps i´ ll try that, for now i really like the idea having it > on the first console for control issues. > > How stable is the svn trunk? Should it be better to use this one for > now or do you think waiting for a next release would be the better > choice? > The svn code is far from a release, and has some bugs, so I think you should go for the current stable. BTW, Having distros running the current initng could help to fix our lack of developers (yeah, I'm lonely :P), so a new release could come faster... -- Ismael Luceno
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