Awesome Boot Display

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

I was pleasantly surprised to see the solar theme boot display
after installing Rawhide on an ECS motherboard with
on board display.  The Linux Desktop is showing signs of life.

The folks who would most appreciate this eye candy are mostly
NOT using wimp motherboard graphics. 

When might we see this boot display with Nvidia cards?

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[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 08:01 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>  When might we see this boot display with Nvidia cards? 
As soon as we turn on KMS for nouveau. Hopefully, before F11.

Richard.

[Kevin Kofler]

Richard Hughes wrote:
>  As soon as we turn on KMS for nouveau. Hopefully, before F11. 
... which will of course not help the people using the proprietary crap,
which unfortunately will be most of them. :-(

Once again, proprietary drivers are trying to play catchup and failing
horribly at it. Free Software is where the innovation happens.

        Kevin Kofler

[Rahul Sundaram]

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>  I was pleasantly surprised to see the solar theme boot display
>  after installing Rawhide on an ECS motherboard with
>  on board display.  The Linux Desktop is showing signs of life.
>  
>  The folks who would most appreciate this eye candy are mostly
>  NOT using wimp motherboard graphics.
>  When might we see this boot display with Nvidia cards? 
Refer Nouveau Modesetting in

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList

Rahul

[Michael J Gruber]

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R venit, vidit, dixit 04.03.2009 17:01:
>  I was pleasantly surprised to see the solar theme boot display
>  after installing Rawhide on an ECS motherboard with
>  on board display.  The Linux Desktop is showing signs of life.
>  
>  The folks who would most appreciate this eye candy are mostly
>  NOT using wimp motherboard graphics. 
>  
>  When might we see this boot display with Nvidia cards?
>   
You can always get it by setting vga=0x31b or similar in grub. It's just
that the switching from the boot screen to X/gdm won't be smooth, and
that the vga option hardcodes a resolution.

Michael

[Steven I Usdansky]

--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane(a)fastmail.fm&gt; wrote:

>  From: Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane(a)fastmail.fm&gt;
>  Subject: Re: Awesome Boot Display
>  To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
>  Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 11:12 AM
>  Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R venit, vidit, dixit 04.03.2009
>  17:01:
>  > I was pleasantly surprised to see the solar theme boot
>  display
>  > after installing Rawhide on an ECS motherboard with
>  > on board display.  The Linux Desktop is showing signs
>  of life.
>  > 
>  > The folks who would most appreciate this eye candy are
>  mostly
>  > NOT using wimp motherboard graphics. 
>  > 
>  > When might we see this boot display with Nvidia cards?
>  > 
>  
>  You can always get it by setting vga=0x31b or similar in
>  grub. It's just
>  that the switching from the boot screen to X/gdm won't
>  be smooth, and
>  that the vga option hardcodes a resolution.
>  
>  Michael
>   
As the owner of a Rawhide-running desktop PC (that boots into runlevel 3) with
wimp motherboard graphics (Intel 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE) and a nice 1680x1050 LCD
panel, I have a question: 

Once upon a time (up through kernel-2.6.29-0.73.rc3.git2.fc11) I could boot with vga=795
as a kernel parameter in grub.conf and get both a nice hi-res text display and a
fully-working X. Now, with kernel-2.6.29-0.176.rc6.git5.fc10.i586, if I want a working X,
I have to include a nomodeset kernel parameter, which leaves me a screen-hogging 85x24
textmode display. I want something akin to the old behavior back - is this possible?

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 09:53 -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote:

>  > You can always get it by setting vga=0x31b or similar in
>  > grub. It's just
>  > that the switching from the boot screen to X/gdm won't
>  > be smooth, and
>  > that the vga option hardcodes a resolution.
>  > 
>  > Michael
>  > 
>  As the owner of a Rawhide-running desktop PC (that boots into runlevel 3) with wimp
> motherboard graphics (Intel 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE) and a nice 1680x1050 LCD panel, I
> have a question: 
>  
>  Once upon a time (up through kernel-2.6.29-0.73.rc3.git2.fc11) I could boot with vga=795
> as a kernel parameter in grub.conf and get both a nice hi-res text display and a
> fully-working X. Now, with kernel-2.6.29-0.176.rc6.git5.fc10.i586, if I want a working X,
> I have to include a nomodeset kernel parameter, which leaves me a screen-hogging 85x24
> textmode display. I want something akin to the old behavior back - is this possible?
Tried 'nomodeset vga=795'?
-- 
Adam Williamson
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[Kevin Kofler]

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>  The folks who would most appreciate this eye candy are mostly
>  NOT using wimp motherboard graphics. 
Those "wimp motherboard graphics" are the ones with the best Free drivers,
even developed by Intel themselves. And the GM965 on my laptop actually has
higher 3D performance than the Radeon 9250 on my desktop. (The performance
was horrible in F9, but that was a driver issue which got fixed in F10.)

If you want some numbers: Extreme Tux Racer runs at ~80 fps with 800x600
windowed on the GM965, my Radeon 9250 can only handle ~50 fps at 640x480
windowed for the same course.

Please do not insult the manufacturers who resp. the products which are
supporting Free Software.

>  When might we see this boot display with Nvidia cards? 
With Nouveau, soon. With the proprietary crap, when NVidia feels like it;
maybe in 5 years or so. :-/

        Kevin Kofler