Daniel Drake a écrit : > Jimmy Jazz wrote: >> If i understood well F2 is managed from splash_util not splash_helper. > > Indeed. splash_util listens for input events, but splash_helper does > not. The only reason that splash_helper appears to respond to Alt+F1 > is that that particular keypress is handled by the kernel as "change > to terminal 1". If you could find a way to change back to terminal 16 > (which is where splash_helper draws its pretty graphics), you'd be > away. Maybe it's possible to use (e.g.) terminal 8 instead, in which > case you could use Alt+F8. > Stupid me ! I didn't thought about that :). Perhaps chvt will do it quite easily.
>> The second issue is, i'm no more able to see the purple vertical bar at >> the right of the screen during the verbose mode. The screen only looks >> like as an usual tty. I'm quite sure, it was possible in the past. > > I may be wrong, but I think splash_util is required for drawing the > progress bar -- I don't think splash_helper can do that. I will try splash_util and look if it doesn't overvalue my needs. Indeed, bzImage doesn't become too huge. > >> PS: I have tried splashutils 1.4 but it doesn't work for me. The screen >> stays black... until i press alt+f1 or F2. At first, i thought that >> could be the radeonfb driver, but it seems not. I didn't take too much >> time to look after it and i switched back to splashutils 1.3.1 for the >> moment. > > Probably needs some extra testing with baselayout-1.x. This release > was primarily for the baselayout-2 splash plugin, which does work fine > on baselayout-2 (entering portage soon). > > Daniel > I'm eager to see the new features of baselayout-2 :) Thanks for your explanations. Jj -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
