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On ons, 2005-10-12 at 19:08 -0300, Francisco J. A. Ares wrote: |
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> Hi, All |
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> I'm about to launch an embeded product runing Gentoo Linux. Everything |
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> is working perfectly now, but I really would like to have a faster boot. |
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Take a look at initng. It is really fast (if you compare to standard |
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gentoo bootscripts). |
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If that is not fast enough - take a look at software suspend. |
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> As this computer will not have upgrades, at least not as usual as a |
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> common desktop, I think that the cold/hotplug could be replaced by |
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> something else, although I plan to use an external USB disk on maintenance. |
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I was thinking of something similar some time ago. The idea was that if |
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there is no /etc/modules run coldplug and list all loaded modules |
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into /etc/modules, otherwise skip coldplug and just load the modules |
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listed in /etc/modules. That would not detect if you have plugged a new |
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USB device when powered off though. |
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If you think that hotplugging is to slow (that there is a delay after |
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you have plugged the external device until the device shows up) there is |
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a hotplug-ng that is written in C instead of bash (like the standard |
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hotplug system is). It is supposed to be faster. |
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I think I posted an ebuild at bugzilla some time ago. |
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> Another little detail: I have already seen that the Knoppix CD starts |
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> with a lo-res bitmap while starting its services and probably detecting |
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> the hardware and then it changes to a full-res version of the same image |
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> when it is starting KDE. How can I do that? I have almost done that |
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> with the frame buffer bootup image and just after starting X the first |
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> task is to change the background image to a copy of that used on the |
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> boot sequence, but still there is a gap where one can see the X' |
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> checkered background. |
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> Any sugestions? |
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You can try setting another background bitmap and background color in |
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some resource file. The screen would be black or something while waiting |
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for the backround image to show up. |
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> Thanks a lot |
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> Francisco |
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