Thanks, now I understand it better. I am rather curious though, why don't you guys make xorg with whatever driver you have installed activate itself earlier? Fedora does that, I don't really like Fedora anymore but that is one thing they do to fix that issue. I would hate for your artwork developers to limit their creative muscle due to the 60hz refresh rate. Having xorg activate itself early would make usplash look killer, and artwork options would not be limited.
On Saturday September 02 2006 6:45 am, Paul Sladen wrote: > Hello Jeremy; during boot usplash now uses 'svgalib' to gain access to > higher-resolution VESA modes before the X server is loaded. As you say > this gives 'crisper' results. > > Unfortunately, the limitations of the VESA mode setting are that we are > stuck with whatever resolution the BIOS programs the video chip at---in > this case normally the fairly standard and fail-safe 60Hz. > > This 60Hz frequency is the same one that usplash was using previously > running at the 640x4?0 16-colour resolution; possibly a reason that > flickering is more obvious is because of brighter colours on the screen > instead of black. > > Perhaps we can get the artwork guys to take into account that bright- > colours will flicker more when they provide new artwork over the top of > the testcard. > > > ** Changed in: usplash (Ubuntu) > Importance: Untriaged => Wishlist > Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed > > ** Summary changed: > > - Usplash Uses 60hz Refresh Rate > + Usplash artwork should use dark colours to avoid flicker @ 60Hz -- Usplash artwork should use dark colours to avoid flicker @ 60Hz https://launchpad.net/bugs/58539 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
