On patching usplash, boot times and Live CD

Michiel Sikma omega at avalanchestudios.net
Wed May 24 14:32:25 BST 2006


Op 24-mei-2006, om 15:21 heeft Matt Zimmerman het volgende geschreven:
> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 12:51:56PM +0200, Frank Schoep wrote:
>> I'm going to address the last few issues I had left unanswered,  
>> it's going to
>> be quite a story again.
>>
>> First of all, I patched usplash this morning. The change is  
>> exactly what I
>> proposed yesterday: only showing failure messages and their  
>> appropriate
>> descriptions. The patch is very small and works for all usplash  
>> themes once
>> installed.  Apply it on usplash.c, there's also a contextual 3 diff:
>> http://www.ffnn.nl/media/external/ubuntu/usplash/usplash-cut- 
>> verbosity.patch
>> http://www.ffnn.nl/media/external/ubuntu/usplash/usplash.c-c3.diff
>>
>> I've compiled a binary which can be dropped into /sbin [1]:
>> http://www.ffnn.nl/media/external/ubuntu/usplash/usplash
>>
>> After copying it there, chmod 755 it and run: "sudo dpkg-reconfigure
>> linux-image-$(uname -r)". After that, your usplash will only show  
>> error
>> messages and definitely boot faster.
>
> We'll likely experiment with this sort of thing once we have a  
> useful means
> of logging the boot process (e.g., bootlogd).
>
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A little question (I'm unable to check this right now as I'm at  
work): was a new font added to usplash? I created a new BDF font for  
it and gave it to Adam Conrad, who said he'd try his best to get it  
to be included, but I'm not sure if it has. I think it would be too  
bad if this was missed, since a boot screen is a screen that millions  
of people will see everyday during startup, afterall. It was a  
monospace font that didn't have some of the rather disturbing shape  
errors that the Breezy font had.

Here's the font for reference:

http://omega.avalanchestudios.net/personal/dropbox/usplash/new/ 
Usplash_Mono.bdf

Michiel






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