Bootsplash?

[Richard Hughes]

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 14:49 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
> lør, 25 03 2006 kl. 12:30 +0000, skrev Richard Hughes:
> > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 07:26 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
> > > fre, 24 03 2006 kl. 20:09 +0530, skrev Rahul Sundaram:
> > > > Might be a good alternative path to try out.
> > > 
> > > If you are looking at alternatives, the tool set Gentoo uses works
> > > really well and has a really nice featureset - we might be able to adapt
> > > that to our needs.
> > 
> > What do they use?
> 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/
> 
> I think the developer aims to fix one of my top hated things about rhgb,
> the fact that it displays ugly kernel messages between grub and loading
> the splash - I dunno doing that seems very unpolished to me.

Whats wrong with doing something with the framebuffer (like this) before
we do the hibernate:

fbi -a -1 --noedit -d /dev/fb0 -vt
7 /usr/share/backgrounds/images/default.png --noverbose

in pm-hibernate or something. Doing this makes my X not come back after
suspending, but I may be being a moron.

Richard.