Re: Kernel bootsplash without recompiling
Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 13:41 +0200, Paul van der Vlis a écrit : Hello, I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a way to enable it with a standard kernel. For many many people all these boot-messages are confusing. For me this is really an important point in using Debian for normal people. Is there a good reason not to include the bootsplash? Who is making the dicision in questions like this? Linus Torvalds, most probably. I imagine the code is not judged portable or clean enough to be included by default in the kernel. How can I ask for such a dicision? Linus Torvalds himself, or the other core kernel hackers. This is not really a Debian stuff. Hope it helps With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- Jérôme Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] BeezNest
Re: Kernel bootsplash without recompiling
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:41 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a way to enable it with a standard kernel. splashy is a better alternative to the kernel-patch: http://splashy.alioth.debian.org It is only in experimental, but it works nicely. Your other questions were answered by Jérôme Warnier. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Kernel bootsplash without recompiling
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 19:55 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Your other questions were answered by Jérôme Warnier. I forgot the following pages related to boot splashscreens: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/kernel-patch-bootsplash http://packages.debian.org/experimental/graphics/splashy http://packages.debian.org/experimental/graphics/splashy-themes http://bugs.debian.org/297579 http://bugs.debian.org/356193 http://bugs.debian.org/368828 http://bugs.debian.org/368826 http://bugs.debian.org/188439 http://bugs.debian.org/188440 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Kernel bootsplash without recompiling
gensplash and fbsplash might be an option to consider too: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash Miry --- Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:41 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a way to enable it with a standard kernel. splashy is a better alternative to the kernel-patch: http://splashy.alioth.debian.org It is only in experimental, but it works nicely. Your other questions were answered by Jérôme Warnier. __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel bootsplash without recompiling
Jérôme Warnier schreef: Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 13:41 +0200, Paul van der Vlis a écrit : Hello, I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a way to enable it with a standard kernel. For many many people all these boot-messages are confusing. For me this is really an important point in using Debian for normal people. Is there a good reason not to include the bootsplash? Who is making the dicision in questions like this? Linus Torvalds, most probably. Linux makes dicisions about the kernel, not about the Debian kernel. Or does Debian have completely no patches to the kernel.org-kernel? With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel bootsplash without recompiling
Paul Wise schreef: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:41 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a way to enable it with a standard kernel. splashy is a better alternative to the kernel-patch: http://splashy.alioth.debian.org It is only in experimental, but it works nicely. Interesting. This looks like a real user-space splash screen ;-) With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel bootsplash without recompiling
Miriam Ruiz schreef: gensplash and fbsplash might be an option to consider too: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash Interesting... From the site: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/ --- This means that if you don't care about having an image in the background of your system consoles and all you really want is a progress bar and a nice picture while (re-)booting the system, you can just use splashutils and skip everything related to fbsplash, thus making gensplash a 100% userspace solution. No kernel patches are required in this case. --- I think Debian needs something like Splashutils or Splashy.. Thanks, Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel bootsplash without recompiling
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006, Paul van der Vlis wrote: I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a way to enable it with a standard kernel. Ubuntu starts Linux with a framebuffer atop of the VGA16 video driver and uses usplash in initrd and during system boot to display a boot splash screen. This doesn't need any kernel patch, but might require CONFIG_VGA16 to be in the kernel and not as a module. In my experience, the VGA16 FB didn't cause any problem, while using other drivers was quite risky on configurations running Xorg (garbled console when switching from X to tty[1-8]). -- Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel bootsplash without recompiling
Loïc Minier schreef: On Wed, Jun 14, 2006, Paul van der Vlis wrote: I don't like the fact that I need to recompile the kernel to get a bootsplash. I don't ask for a bootsplash by default, but I would like a way to enable it with a standard kernel. Ubuntu starts Linux with a framebuffer atop of the VGA16 video driver and uses usplash in initrd and during system boot to display a boot splash screen. OK, interesting. This doesn't need any kernel patch, but might require CONFIG_VGA16 to be in the kernel and not as a module. When they use initrd, I think a module is OK. In my experience, the VGA16 FB didn't cause any problem, while using other drivers was quite risky on configurations running Xorg (garbled console when switching from X to tty[1-8]). Thanks for your info. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
