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On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 30/05/12 09:42, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> In all my years of Gentoo I've never set up fbsplash and fbcondecor, |
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>> so I finally did so on my old laptop. It all worked, pretty easy to |
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>> set up -- however, there are 2 things I have questions about: |
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>> 1) I see much of OpenRC's colorful output before the fbsplash kicks |
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>> in. Is there any trick to prevent that stuff from showing and/or |
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>> making the splash screen show up earlier? |
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> Yes. Compile the KMS driver in-kernel rather than as a module. |
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Thanks, that fixed it. I saw my OpenRC through "Waiting for uevents to |
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be processed" before, so that makes perfect sense now. Radeon starts |
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in dmesg at 0.3 seconds instead of 2.8 seconds. :) |
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I see Tux for a microsecond, then the splash screen appears and |
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flashes black three times before stabilizing. I don't think it is the |
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display changing modes (the backlight stays on), it just looks like |
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it's switching between blank screen and back to showing the graphics. |
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It happens at the very beginning of the splash, before root is |
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remounted and the progress bar is moving. I'm using dracut's gensplash |
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module to generate the initrd, maybe it's doing something funny. |
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>> 2) With the fbsplash enabled, xdm (slim) starts in the background. I |
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>> have to alt-7 to see the graphical login screen. xdm starts at default |
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>> runlevel. With splash disabled, xdm (slim) starts in the foreground. |
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>> Why is that? |
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> Sounds like a bug. I use KDM and it switches to console 7 automatically. |
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I just tried plain xdm as well as slim and both wind up in the |
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background when splash is enabled. Weird. |
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What specifically happens is: I see the graphical login screen for a |
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split second, then it changes back to tty1, I briefly see the last |
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parts of OpenRC finishing and then the console login prompt. alt-7 |
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will take me back to the graphical login screen and it works normally |
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once I'm there. |
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I will keep hunting. |