On Thursday 10 November 2005 23:41, James Rayner wrote: > On 11/11/05, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/11/05, Philip Dillon-Thiselton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the tip but alas the whole point of fbsplash is that it is > > > managed from userspace - the problems with fbsplash stem directly from > > > it's "working parts" being removed from the kernel :( > > > > The terrible thing is that, bootsplash was smart enough to use an > > initrd, which doesnt clash. > > Just a question... what stops us from putting drivers in the initramfs? >
nothing actually. i used in earlier mkliveiso testings (0.2) initrd with gensplash and built the initrd myself (see mkliveiso for howto). i copied the theme and /sbin/splash_helper to the initrd manually and set on the kernel cmdline "theme:<themename>". however, iirc, the problem with that were gensplash not responding to F2 (verbose mode) only after rc.sysinit started, which might not be a problem for Arch users but it is for Archie (initrd is also used for debugging). another issue with using initrd with gensplash (again, iirc...) was something in the progress bar... i think i had problems syncing between progress on the initrd and after init (rc.sysinit) starts... gluck with the userspace fanatics ;) ...jk!!! > -- > iphitus - archck maintainer > Home:iphitus.loudas.com Blog: iphitus.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch -- regards, Elia Yehuda, aka z4ziggy Archie project, http://archie.dotsrc.org _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
