Usplash question: a program is ready, but can we call it usplash?

Rui Andrada shingonoide at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 22:03:21 CDT 2005


Hi, I'm seeing this thread and I have a question. where is the usplash 0.2?

On 4/13/05, Rui Andrada <shingonoide at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm seeing this thread and I have a question. where is the usplash 0.2
> ?
> 
> On 4/12/05, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org > wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 08:31 -0400, Goshawk wrote:
> > > Yes.. you have right, from 0.2 version splashy will be capable to find
> > > it the card is a vesa frambuffer compatible and set it on... If it's
> > > not a vesa framebuffer comptatible card it will enable vga16fb...
> > > btw linux needs more innovation on framebuffers, i'm still thinking to 
> > 
> > > put my hands on vasa-tng or something similar to give to ix86 system a
> > > good framebuffer as others architettures have...
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure what you mean here. splashy shouldn't attempt to
> > configure the framebuffer, it should just try to use whichever 
> > framebuffer is present. At the moment, it can't do that because directfb
> > doesn't support vga16fb. So we need to either fix directfb (so it'll
> > work with vga16fb) or change splashy (so it doesn't use directfb).
> > 
> > --
> > Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
> > 
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> > 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rui Andrada
> Linux user #198534
> Why to use window if I have the door? Linux in the vain!
> The box said 'requires Windows 95/98/NT or better' then installed the 
> Linux. 
> 
> Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as
> bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer
> wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, 
> cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.
> 
> :-) 




-- 
Rui Andrada
Linux user #198534
Why to use window if I have the door? Linux in the vain!
The box said 'requires Windows 95/98/NT or better' then installed the Linux.

Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as
bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer
wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated,
cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.

:-)
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