More low hanging fruit.

Jon Nettleton jon.nettleton at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 20:47:48 UTC 2007


On 8/24/07, dragoran <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 8/24/07, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/24/07, Gian Paolo Mureddu <gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx> wrote:
> > > Ray Strode escribió:
> > > >
> > > > Seems like a good idea to me.  At a minimum we should get rid of the
> > > > getty on tty1 so we don't have the brief "Login: " flash when the
> screen
> > > > jumps from rhgb to gdm.
> > > >
> > > > --Ray
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > When will Fedora drop RHGB once and for all? Seems all that's needed is
> > > already into the kernel or easily configured into it... Albeit the
> > > current mode setting is rather manual, but we could simply go with
> > > something standard such as 1024x768 at 32bpp, or is this value going to
> > > directly feed X resolution information? For in that case, why not make X
> > > and VT configuration part of either: boot loader (LiveCD) or Anaconda
> > > (DVD) for installation, just "like in the old days", I don't see why
> > > both resolution values have to be tied together or identical in any
> way...
> > >
> > I almost have a working configuration that allows rhgb to use the gdm
> > xserver.  This
> > means that once X starts ( even earlier than with rhgb now ) it is a
> > seamless X transition
> > all the way to login.  I also have it doing cool things like instead
> > of bouncing back to
> > a VT for manual fsck it all happens right there in the rhgb vte screen.
> >
> > It isn't perfect yet but I am trying to get it usable enough to make
> > it into Fedora 8 feature set.
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> ok but feature freeze  is in 4 days... will it be ready by then?
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I think I got over the last major hurdle this morning so hopefully.




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