High-res 'bootsplash'

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:25:17PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Ok. Currently i386 only, but it turns out that svgalib uses lrmi so it 
> shouldn't be /too/ difficult to port it to amd64. Applying 
> http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/tmp/usplash.diff to the current usplash 
> and then doing
> 
> make BACKEND=svga
> 
> should give you a usplash that runs at 800x600 without requiring any 
> extra misery. Requires libsvga1-dev to be installed for building, but 
> will then happily run without it.

usplash 0.4-1 works for me on my T42 during shutdown, but it doesn't seem to
start successfully from initramfs (I get a text-mode boot).

After booting with init=top, usplash complains about some missing devices
(/dev/mem, /dev/tty0, /dev/zero), which I created and tried again, but
svgalib still doesn't initialize ("Not running in a graphics capable
console, and unable to find one.").

-- 
 - mdz