High-res 'bootsplash'

[John Richard Moser]

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Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 23:37 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> 
>> Scott James Remnant wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 15:14 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
>>>
>>>> Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I just read this blog entry from Debian planet, would this solve the
>>>>>> suspend problem with a high-res usplash?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://hughsient.livejournal.com/2591.html
>>>>> Unlikely, I'm afraid. There /is/ a potential mechanism for this - rather 
>>>>> than using the kernel framebuffer driver, we could do vesa in userspace. 
>>>>> This has a couple of drawbacks (x86-specific, would probably need 
>>>>> additional code written in order to support amd64) but would allow 
>>>>> higher resolutions without being likely to break suspend/resume.
>>>>>
>>>> Could use VESA kdrive, but uh.  Okay so kdrive is really lightweight and
>>>> all, but it's still, you know.  An X server.  It's BIG compared to a
>>>> single-function, tiny little program to scribble on the screen!
>>>>
>>> If we've got an X server, I'm putting a frickin' login screen up -- not
>>> a splash screen.  People can then be typing their username and password
>>> while the machine boots
>> It's not so much a full X server (Xorg has extensions and driver modules
>> and everything) as it is the minimal you need for things to work.  Also
>> it kind of only takes 2 megs of compressed space (if that) to get Kdrive
>> + GTK + Xlibs; if all we're interested in is images and text then GTK
>> can be ditched.
>>
> Yet it's the minimum we need for a login screen; I didn't say it had to
> be gdm, just something we can draw on and receive input for (which
> usplash can't do).
> 

Yes well.  The only two drivers are VESA and VGA.  There's also no
synaptics mouse driver.

> Scott

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