On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lonni J Friedman wrote: >> >> 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. > > You didn't even read the references I guess. You guessed wrong. They have nothing to do with the fact that some people don't want a GUI boot process. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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
