High-res 'bootsplash'

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:18:39PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.").

Spoke too soon; after exiting from that shell, usplash started up OK.  So
perhaps just a missing device node?

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 - mdz