Bootsplash?

[Peter Jones]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 20:26 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:44 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 12:30 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > I think ubuntu use bootsplash [http://www.bootsplash.org/] but I think
> > > that requires a patch to the kernel away from vanilla, so that might not
> > > be an option for fedora. Maybe rhgb could be used instead?
> > 
> > With the swsusp code currently in the kernel, there isn't really a way
> > to do any sort of useful userspace stuff.  Also, rhgb has the downside
> > of being X based which tends to hit "interesting" corner cases and bugs.
> > All the options here kind of suck :-/
> 
> Even displaying a static bitmap (a-la-windows 98) would be better than
> the black we have now. Not sure if that makes it simpler.

But _much_ more risky.  We switch away from X because being in graphical
mode tends to make suspend/resume break horribly.  This would likely
cause the same failures.

-- 
  Peter