On 4/17/05, Fredrik Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using a PVR-350 on a gentoo box connected only to my TV. I'm > getting tired of first having nothing on the screen, followed by a > garbled image when X starts up on the framebuffer and then, finally, > the mythtv frontend when everything is loaded. > > Is there any way of using the framebuffer device + bootsplash on the > TV out during boot ? > It would have a great WOW-factor.. I found a mythtv bootsplash theme > somewhere a while ago that I would not mind using for this. > > Any ideas? > > /Fredrik > -- > My Gentoo + PVR-350 + IVTV + MythTV blog is on > http://gentoomythtv.blogspot.com/
Maybe using an initrd image, you could pre-load the ivtv and necessary modules, and that way have the card be initialized and working pre-startup, to get to the splash. Not sure if it'd work, but that's the path I'd start down... Cool _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
