Hi,
After distro hopping for a month, i came back to Salix and the responsiveness is just great!
Only thing i miss in 13.1 is a boot splash.
The release notes say that Splashy is incompatible with KMS and hence we dont have a splash.
Is it possible to some other splash, like xsplash or plymouth?
Also, it would be nice if someone could point to me a manual method of adding xsplash/plymouth to Salix.
Thanks.
Boot Splash
Re: Boot Splash
Plymouth perhaps will be an option for next Salix release. For now we don't want to have a boot splash that works for one machine, but not for the other. Therefore we rather have no boot splash at all.
Getting a boot splash working is not an easy task, so if you need a how-to you probably don't want to set it up
Getting a boot splash working is not an easy task, so if you need a how-to you probably don't want to set it up
Re: Boot Splash
Nice to know you guys are considering plymouth.
I guess i'll wait for you guys to build it into Salix
Thanks
I guess i'll wait for you guys to build it into Salix
Thanks
Re: Boot Splash
I was played around with plymouth on Slackware 13.1 once, I didn't touch my initrd but I guess you don't need to if you have a KMS-found video card, since I was able to get a pseudo-bootsplash on console with #plymouth --show-splash. If you call plymouth correctly after the rc.udev start call in rc.S, it shouldn't give much trouble.
But I personally like the colorized boot messages Salix provides, though. It's a good substitute for a bootsplash on low-resolution consoles.
But I personally like the colorized boot messages Salix provides, though. It's a good substitute for a bootsplash on low-resolution consoles.
Re: Boot Splash
Actually I'm not keen on having a boot splash anymore, so at least I won't investigate this problem in the near future
Re: Boot Splash
I second that.thenktor wrote:Actually I'm not keen on having a boot splash anymore ...
Re: Boot Splash
I get fed up with pressing [F2] or [Etc] to see what's actually going on!
Actually, the one and only time I thought I'd install Fedora was cut short because there was a problem and I couldn't escape from the splash screen to see what was happening. Come to think of it, I think that might have been the first release with Plymouth.
Needless to say I went back to Slackware (as is usually the case) .
Actually, the one and only time I thought I'd install Fedora was cut short because there was a problem and I couldn't escape from the splash screen to see what was happening. Come to think of it, I think that might have been the first release with Plymouth.
Needless to say I went back to Slackware (as is usually the case) .
Re: Boot Splash
Contrary to others, I like bootsplash...
Re: Boot Splash
Me too. (Even if I like being able to view the messages underneath from time to time.)JRD wrote:Contrary to others, I like bootsplash...
Once the dust settles we probably will be able to get back to it sometimes.
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