On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:21 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Mark Phalan wrote: > > I believe that on Linux X isn't used at all, they directly use the > > framebuffer device (/dev/fb). Is this possible in OpenSolaris? > > If someone wrote framebuffer devices for all the video cards - we also need > them for suspend and resume to work, but so far, only have ATI Rage XL & > Nvidia's done.
Does this mean that the other cards will probably get support over time (as they are updated for suspend/resume)? > (And even those I don't think provide any common drawing > API like the Solaris SPARC /dev/fb or Linux /dev/fb.) For everything else, > the kernel only provides the vgatext driver. Is that enough? > > > How long would it take to go from the grub splash screen to a "splashy" > > splash screen using the X method with vesa? One thing thats nice with > > Ubuntu (and other Linux distros) is that there is a consistant splash > > screen all the way from grub -> x login screen. > > Jan Setje-Eilers did a lot of work on that as part of the "CoolStart" project. > There's even a prototype you can turn on in the current kernel: > http://blogs.sun.com/setje/entry/happiness_through_ignorance > http://blogs.sun.com/setje/entry/faster_seamless_boot_progress_graphics That's very cool. I just enabled it on my notebook (macbook pro) and it sort-of works. The graphic comes up but is stretched - probably due to the aspect ratio of the LCD. Also the progress bar doesn't fill, instead the pic slowly gets more noisy at the top. Is the CoolStart project still being worked on? It would be nice to have higher resolution/better aspect ratio pics. Cheers, -Mark
