On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: >> >> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:37:34 -0800 >> Russell Miller <duskglow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> 4) KMS seems cool, but it doesn't work on my card, so it falls back to a >>> lame progress bar on the bottom of the screen. Can we be a little more >>> informative than that? It didn't even tell me I could press escape, I had >>> to figure that out on my own. >> >> Wait, is this the boot time "plymouth" stuff you are talking about? >> All I've ever seen on any system was a lame progress bar (3 colors, >> but still lame). I've really wondered what all the plymouth hoopla >> was about. It can sometimes do more than a progress bar? (Not that >> I care much, one of the first things I always do is remove the rhgb >> option so I can actually see information on the screen if something >> goes wrong). > > Read the release notes. You can use vga=ask or vga=0x380 for any system to > get a framebuffer based progress bar. Removing rhgb is unnecessary since it > automatically shows any errors if and when it happens. For more details on > Plymouth, refer > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_plymouth&num=1 > (video included) > http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-startup/ I think you're missing the point. Not everyone wants Fedora to be a shiny happy Microsoft Windows clone. Not everyone wants X. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand https://netllama.linux-sxs.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
