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gringo
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apparently it works -> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-631052.html
i havent´tested myself, radeonfb works just fine and is enough for me.
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| Not sure what the question is. To my knowledge, you need also fbcondecor to have splash working which AFAIK is not contained in vanilla-kernel (uvesafb is only part of the framebuffer driver and does not include all of fbcondecor). So, splash is probably still not possible with recent vanilla and hardened kernel but only with the gentoo patchset. |
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the question is: what is the best and easy way to have a splash screen which hides the linux dmesg&C while the kernel is booting ?
it is not important for me, but my girl friend "hates" to see dmesg lines while the kernel is booting ... (you have to understand she is a mac user mind...)
let me short about the reason we have to share this powerbook, and the reason why she has to use linux ....
the point is: or i make gentoo/ppc able to have the splash screen, or i have to change:
A) or i change the installed distro (ubuntu/ppc is obsolete but the last one version has splash support)
B) or i change my girl friend
(and YEP, it is clear i will never change my gentoo for an other distro =P ) |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, I had clicked wrong forum  (I thought I am in amd64 forum, that's why I misunderstood. No idea about PPC) |
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baeksu
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| ddc wrote: | | the question is: what is the best and easy way to have a splash screen which hides the linux dmesg&C while the kernel is booting ? |
Assuming you have splash already working, you can hide the kernel messages (stuff that comes before init takes over) by adding "quiet" to the kernel boot options in grub.
If you don't have splash, it'll still hide the messages.
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| baeksu wrote: | | ddc wrote: | | the question is: what is the best and easy way to have a splash screen which hides the linux dmesg&C while the kernel is booting ? |
Assuming you have splash already working, you can hide the kernel messages (stuff that comes before init takes over) by adding "quiet" to the kernel boot options in grub.
If you don't have splash, it'll still hide the messages. |
well, apple/ppc doesn't with grub, apple/ppc boot with yaboot
every bootloader can pass the quiet option to the kernel, so the kernel can be -quited but what about the init process ?
umm, you will see a black screen till the init process is invoked, then you will see a lot of rc script running: my girl friend still hating it, so I'm still having the problem =P
so I really better add the graphical effect you can see in every macOSX system: waiting with a black screen is boring, seeing something telling you to wait is entertaining 
p.s.
ubuntu/ppc has his pretty splash running when you boot it, unfortunately i think ubuntu sux for me, and i prefer gentoo ... even if sometimes gentoo makes me to reinvent the wheel |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| ddc wrote: | well, apple/ppc doesn't with grub, apple/ppc boot with yaboot
every bootloader can pass the quiet option to the kernel, so the kernel can be -quited but what about the init process ?
umm, you will see a black screen till the init process is invoked, then you will see a lot of rc script running: my girl friend still hating it, so I'm still having the problem =P |
Sorry about that, I forgot ppc doesn't use grub.
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fixed and working
if somebody interested, i will write 2 notes |
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unfortunately it is only working with radeon 9600: ati r128 fails at all ... a lot of problem about setting the framebuffer to be 32bit color depth ...
WOW: No 8bpp silent/verbose picture specified in the theme
also there is something wrong into the kernel (2.6.23) about r128/video-mode-init
i mean
1) booting with the "video=aty128fb:1024x768-24@60" ...[fail and panic]
2) booting with the "video=aty128fb:1024x768-16@60" ...[simply fail]
3) booting with the "video=aty128fb:1024x768-32" ...[boots but the screen is black with colored lines]
while the radeon 9600 video card has a simply stive setup: video=radeon:1440x960-32, which simply means Resolution-ColorDepth, nothing magic to be known
any idea about the ati r128 ? |
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| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:05 am Post subject: |
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I have fixed the aty128fb's issue ... hacking the kernel driver ...
splash is now working on the pismo, too |
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