Grub and Plymouth

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Oct 20 00:36:34 UTC 2008


Bruno GARDIN wrote:
> I should be a lucky then as i am having an Intel Video and get the
> nice Fedora splash screen. I think it's because i run Rawhide on a
> virtual VMware guest system and my video is virtualized. Thank you
> VMware !
> 
Yes, using KVM and the 2.6.27 FC9 kernel I can get a boot, but like raw hardware 
I get only 800x600 screen size. Time to go VMware, perhaps.

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Adam Pribyl <pribyl at lowlevel.cz> wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>
>>> Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
>>>> Quoting Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:
>>> The cards that do not support kms get the progress bars other get this..
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jSh1ZOaNYs
>>>
>>> Note This is what most ATI card owners are supposed to get.
>>> ( If not file a bug report )
>>>
>>> Intel and Nvidia and other unsupported graphic cards owner will get the
>>> "progress bar"
>>> since KMS is disabled for those cards..
>> The advantage is not very obvious to me from those videos. Crazy wave or
>> crazy progress bar..:) Tried on nvidia and intel and both show progress
>> bar.. I thought intel was to first one to have KMS..
>>

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