Re: usplash in desktop task?

[David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:24:01PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> Otavio Salvador ha scritto:
> > Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > > My standpoint is that installing (or at least activating) splashy should 
> > > > only be done if it is *known* beforehand that the display will be 
> > > > correct.
> > > usplash uses bogl, same as d-i, so if d-i worked in framebuffer mode,
> > > I'll bet that usplash will also work. Until I see a system where it
> > > doesn't anyway. :-) Systems installed using g-i also seem likely to 
> > > support
> > > usplash.
> >
> > AFAIK g-i uses dfb and on this case splashy would work ;-)
>
> If usplash uses bogl and bogl uses framebuffer, then usplash will work 
> almost anywhere g-i does.
> It wont't work on i386 and amd64 systems where the video chip is not 
> supported by vesafb (see #405737).

AFAIK, usplash has two backends, svgalib and bogl...and I believe that 
usplash works with both vesafb and vga16fb as well as chipset-specific 
fb drivers...

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David Härdeman