Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:03:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:03:08 -0500 Received: from [81.2.122.30] ([81.2.122.30]:34565 "EHLO darkstar.example.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:01:35 -0500 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200301281509.h0SF9sGV001368@darkstar.example.net> Subject: Re: Bootscreen To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:09:54 +0000 (GMT) Cc: stepan@suse.de, raphael@arrivingarrow.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1043765442.8675.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> from "Alan Cox" at Jan 28, 2003 02:50:42 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > It's not too much to even state that almost any computer working with > > Linux 2.4+ can do 800x600 or 1024x768. Anything below that can be > > considered a special case, regarding the numbers out there. But that > > does not influence the possibility of using a bootsplash graphics. > > On a system you can't use it properly, you probably also would not > > want it (i.e. use normal text mode boot instead of a framebuffer > > driver) > > Lots of systems cannot do 800x600 or 1024x768. Some of them cannot > do 640x480 very well but 640x480 is safe except for weird kit because > of the VGA mode support. Infact, better than using text mode with a custom font to draw a logo, because some LCD screens display 720x400 as 640x400 by missing out one pixel of each character. John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/