Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262271AbVCILi4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 06:38:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262292AbVCILiz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 06:38:55 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:18144 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262271AbVCILiy (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 06:38:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:38:42 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: James Simmons Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash Message-ID: <20050309113842.GB30119@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050308015731.GA26249@spock.one.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 924 Lines: 22 Hi! > > Fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash - is a feature that allows displaying > > images in the background of consoles that use fbcon. The project is > > partially descended from bootsplash. > > What are you trying to do exactly? I really don't see the point of this > patch. At least some Debians, Gentoo and SUSE each use some variant of this eye candy; each one with different bugs. It would be nice to at least do the splash right (so that it does not require vesafb and therefore allows working with suspend-to-RAM). Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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/