> I downloaded the fedora live CD to view their effort and found the boot > animation did not display on my nVidia desktop but did display on my > Intel laptop. :/
This is because NVidia is afraid of providing an open source kernel end for their driver (as i understand it, strictly the mode setting portion) even though Everyone Else Does It. Feel free to yell at them and perhaps they'll figure it out. The Nouveau driver supports KMS, for what it's worth. As for boot animation, I recommend something ridiculously simple, eg. a logo and a throbber, maybe with a non-black background colour (dark grey?) to spruce things up and show off the awesome. Remember that we're aiming for a really, really quick boot. That means complex animations will not be very visible (and look tacky, anyway). Also remember that this is a still one of MANY screens, again heightening the silliness of a noisy graphic. John, just so you know, Flash is a very proprietary technology. Using it purposefully on the desktop would be like including a WMV video in the Examples folder. So don't worry about that one ;) Boot animations tend not to use external libraries for big videos because those fancy libraries will not function yet, would strain resources, and are unnecessary given that the boot animation is a static, one time thing. -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
