Re: Bootsplash for 2.6.11-rc4

[Marcos D. Marado Torres]

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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Michal Januszewski wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:25:19AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > How many distros do use some variant of bootsplash? SuSE does, from
> > above url I guess gentoo does, too... Does RedHat do something
> > similar? [Or do they just set log-level to very high giving them clean
> > look?] What about Debian?
>
> As far as I know: SuSE uses bootsplash, Gentoo and PLD use fbsplash,
> RedHat uses rhgb (100% userspace solution, based on xvesa, doesn't
> provide graphical backgrounds on vt's - for that a kernel patch like
> bootsplash or fbsplash is necessary). I don't know about Debian - they
> probably have some (possibly unofficial) support for both bootsplash
> and fbsplash.

Indeed, there is bootsplash and fbsplash for Debian, but only unofficial
packages.

Marcos Marado

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