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From: Jimmy Jazz <Jimmy.Jazz@...>
Subject: Re: I'm not able to get the vertical bar with gensplash after issuing alt+f1 key during the earlier boot stage
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:53:45 +0200

 1.1

Daniel Drake a écrit :
> Jimmy Jazz wrote:
>> If i understood well F2 is managed from splash_util not splash_helper.
>
> Indeed. splash_util listens for input events, but splash_helper does
> not. The only reason that splash_helper appears to respond to Alt+F1
> is that that particular keypress is handled by the kernel as "change
> to terminal 1". If you could find a way to change back to terminal 16
> (which is where splash_helper draws its pretty graphics), you'd be
> away. Maybe it's possible to use (e.g.) terminal 8 instead, in which
> case you could use Alt+F8.
>
Stupid me ! I didn't thought about that :). Perhaps chvt will do it
quite easily.

>> The second issue is, i'm no more able to see the purple vertical bar at
>> the right of the screen during the verbose mode. The screen only looks
>> like as an usual tty. I'm quite sure, it was possible in the past.
>
> I may be wrong, but I think splash_util is required for drawing the
> progress bar -- I don't think splash_helper can do that.

I will try splash_util and look if it doesn't overvalue my needs.
Indeed, bzImage doesn't become too huge.
>
>> PS: I have tried splashutils 1.4 but it doesn't work for me. The screen
>> stays black... until i press alt+f1 or F2. At first, i thought that
>> could be the radeonfb driver, but it seems not. I didn't take too much
>> time to look after it and i switched back to splashutils 1.3.1 for the
>> moment.
>
> Probably needs some extra testing with baselayout-1.x. This release
> was primarily for the baselayout-2 splash plugin, which does work fine
> on baselayout-2 (entering portage soon).
>
> Daniel
>
I'm eager to see the new features of baselayout-2 :)

Thanks for your explanations. 

Jj


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