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I've been fighting with bootsplash(.org) on my redhat box for the past
day and a half. Either its retarded, or I am.

Hopefully I'll figure out which and solve the problem. It looks more
mature than LPP anyway.

Brian

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 17:36, Vinton Coffman wrote:
> Does any one know of a working bootup screen for the kernel so a mythtv
> box looks more "professional/commercial" while linux is booting? I saw
> one mentioned a few months ago but it doesn't seem to be supported by
> its developers any more. It would really look cool if a mythtv bootup
> screen was displayed as soon as the kernel started to load and hide all
> of the kernel messages.
>
> The one I tried before was The Linux Progress Patch (its on
> sourceforge.net). I doesn't look like it been updated for over a year.
> Does any one have this running under 2.4.21?
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Good luck brian, report back if you find anything :)

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> Does any one know of a working bootup screen for the kernel so a mythtv
> box looks more "professional/commercial" while linux is booting? I saw
> one mentioned a few months ago but it doesn't seem to be supported by
> its developers any more. It would really look cool if a mythtv bootup
> screen was displayed as soon as the kernel started to load and hide all
> of the kernel messages.
>
> The one I tried before was The Linux Progress Patch (its on
> sourceforge.net). I doesn't look like it been updated for over a year.
> Does any one have this running under 2.4.21?

I've got lpp running under 2.4.21 -- I had to apply the patch for
2.4.20, which I got from the debian package kernel-patch-lpp but I
assume its also available elsewhere. It patched fine and worked as soon
as I'd changed the vga= line in my lilo.conf. Only problem I have now
is that my GeForce card TV-out starts in NTSC mode and I have a PAL TV,
but never mind.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net]On Behalf Of Vinton Coffman
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 5:36 PM
> To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Boot up screen for kernel?
>
>
> Does any one know of a working bootup screen for the kernel so a mythtv
> box looks more "professional/commercial" while linux is booting? I saw
> one mentioned a few months ago but it doesn't seem to be supported by
> its developers any more. It would really look cool if a mythtv bootup
> screen was displayed as soon as the kernel started to load and hide all
> of the kernel messages.
>
> The one I tried before was The Linux Progress Patch (its on
> sourceforge.net). I doesn't look like it been updated for over a year.

I thought I read somewhere that LPP was going to be incorporated into the
2.6 kernel, which might explain why the project hasn't seen any updates (if
it's in the 2.5/2.6 kernel tree). Of course, I might be mis-remembering...

-JAC

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The bootsplash.org stuff is easier to work with, more extensible, and
does not require a kernel re-compile to change the image (though you
*do* have to compile support for the patch into the kernel!) Follow the
instructions *carefully* on their web page - there's a couple of steps
that are easy to overlook. Contact me offline if you get stuck.

== Steve


On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 15:13, Brian Z wrote:
> I've been fighting with bootsplash(.org) on my redhat box for the past
> day and a half. Either its retarded, or I am.
>
> Hopefully I'll figure out which and solve the problem. It looks more
> mature than LPP anyway.


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> I thought I read somewhere that LPP was going to be incorporated into the
> 2.6 kernel, which might explain why the project hasn't seen any updates (if
> it's in the 2.5/2.6 kernel tree). Of course, I might be mis-remembering...

If it was planned, I don't think it got very far. Neither LPP nor
bootsplash has been ported to 2.5/2.6 *yet*; I do know that the
Bootsplash folks are working on the port, LPP is strangely quiet on the
subject.

Given Linus' rather public dislike for all things fb (see
http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2001/Dec/6808.html for example),
I don't see this being added to the standard kernel any time soon.

Of course, I could be wrong... <g> I'd love to not have to patch the
kernel to get this functionality.

I'll be waiting anxiously for bootsplash to be ported to 2.6; the new
kernel has much better support for my Pundit.

BTW, found this as an alternative approach while doing some digging:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=718

== Steve



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