How to test Plymouth on Fedora 10 with Intel graphic cards?

[cornel panceac]

2008/10/28 Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston at ssa.crane.navy.mil>

> Ray Strode wrote, On 10/24/2008 10:33 AM:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Hi, I have several laptops all with different Intel graphic cards
>>> (915, 945 ...) and I would like to test plymouth if it is possible.
>>> Now when I boot rawhide (Fedora 10) I don't get grub but only a black
>>> screen and after that I see black screen with white-blue progress bar
>>> (not impressed).
>>> Do I need even newer intel drivers than ones in Rawhide?
>>>
>>> Is there a way to use latest intel drivers (if needed) or to somehow
>>> enable plymouth and to see how it should work?
>>>
>>>
>> Unfortunately, the latest intel drivers don't do modesetting by default.
>>
>> It's actually hard to enable modesetting for testing purposes too, because
>> we don't write the pciids the card supports into the driver (for mkinitrd to
>> find it).
>>
>> Dave Airlie is going to fix that at some point, but right now intel users
>> are stuck with a text splash.
>>
>> To get to grub, hold down any key during boot up (say shift or ctrl).
>>
>> --Ray
>>
>>
> Has anyone working on the changes considered a configuration item for
> grub|plymouth which would allow the admin to basically set 'HideGrub=NO' if
> they wanted it to always show up?


comment out

hiddenmenu

line.

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