Plymouth on ATI and nVidia

Aioanei Rares schaiba at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 11:56:54 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Christopher A. Williams <
chriswfedora at cawllc.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 18:34 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> > <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >         Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> >                 On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:52 +0000, "Jóhann B.
> >                 Guðmundsson" wrote:
> >                         First of all
> >                         Nvidia does not work and so far and there is
> >                         nothing that indicates it will work in the
> >                         near future.
> >
> >                 Truly a bummer! Given the large number of nVidia card
> >                 users there are, I
> >                 would think this should be more of a priority. Please
> >                 don't let this
> >                 turn into a philosophical discussion (aka a flame
> >                 fest) on nVidia vs.
> >                 others. A lot of people use nVidia cards - we need to
> >                 deal with that and
> >                 respond to the end user population accordingly...
> >
> >
> >         Not philosophical. Just a matter of not having the source code
> >         to fix the proprietary drivers. However the reverse
> >         engineering effort can yield some results albeit in a delayed
> >         manner. Refer
> >
> >
> >
> http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-startup/
>
> <snip...>
> >
> > If I append "vga=0x318" to my kernel options in menu.lst for example,
> > i can see the nice plymouth effects (GeForce 8500 GTS) So would it
> > hurt if we would add this option as the default in grub as a
> > (temporary) workaround? Are there cards that don't scale well with
> > "vga=0x318" ?
>
> Interesting... I just tried appending "vga=0x318" to my kernel options.
> It didn't work outright, but...
>
> ...It DID error out and give me a list of scanned VGA options. I
> selected one of them at random (vga=0x323) and "Graphical Plymouth" came
> to life in all its glory.
>
> Given the other feedback, this seems to also work for nVidia cards.
>
> So, why COULDN't we  have Plymouth (or a set of appropriate kernel
> options) do something like:
> 1) scan for an appropriate and usable VESA mode for these cards
> 2) Upon discovering there's a really nice one we can use, go with that
> one
> 3) Then fail back to text mode only after nothing available in a
> reasonable VESA mode works.
>
> Solves the problem from what I can tell...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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Sounds nice to me, but I reckon we won't see that in F10.
-- 
Aioanei Rares
schaiba at fedoraproject.org
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