On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 00:15 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Mark Phalan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 09:21 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Mark Phalan wrote: > >>> I believe that on Linux X isn't used at all, they directly use the > >>> framebuffer device (/dev/fb). Is this possible in OpenSolaris? > >> If someone wrote framebuffer devices for all the video cards - we also need > >> them for suspend and resume to work, but so far, only have ATI Rage XL & > >> Nvidia's done. > > > > Does this mean that the other cards will probably get support over time > > (as they are updated for suspend/resume)? > > We hope so, but there's no one working on most of them at the moment.
Ok. > > > Is the CoolStart project still being worked on? It would be nice to have > > higher resolution/better aspect ratio pics. > > It's been in hibernation for the last year and a half or so. The big problem > to be solved for enabling graphical boot is what to do when something goes > wrong and you need to go back to a text console to fsck your UFS filesystem or > otherwise fix a failure. Resolution is of course limited by the VGA/VESA > standard modes. Will virtual consoles help here? i.e. send all the console output to a different virtual console than the one the boot splash is being displayed on. Thanks, -Mark
