z4ziggy wrote: > 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).
I'm pretty sure this is due to the F2 option needing evdev loaded and I think it can be overcome just by using ALT+F1 - as you would to swap between any term :) > > 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... I reckon it's dobale... > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
