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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.

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

Nice to know you guys are considering plymouth.

I guess i'll wait for you guys to build it into Salix

Thanks

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.

Actually I'm not keen on having a boot splash anymore, so at least I won't investigate this problem in the near future

thenktor wrote:Actually I'm not keen on having a boot splash anymore ...

I second that.

pwatk wrote:I second that.

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) .

Contrary to others, I like bootsplash...

JRD wrote:Contrary to others, I like bootsplash...

Me too. (Even if I like being able to view the messages underneath from time to time.)

Once the dust settles we probably will be able to get back to it sometimes.