[Debsplash-devel] Fwd: Re: init error

[Luis M]

Ah, so we DO need to modify the fbsplash patch. That's what I thought.
I'll do this and repackage a kernel to see how that goes.

This is very exciting news!


On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:05:38 +0100, website <website_debian@tiscali.it> wrote:
> this is a message that i want to forward to you.
> It seems to be the solution to the verbose mode at init time
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> 
> Subject: Re: init error
> Date: Tuesday 28 December 2004 00:56
> From: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
> To: website <website_debian@tiscali.it>
> 
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:20:39PM +0100, website wrote:
> > Hi.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > i'm in the last step to publish debsplash, we have only one problem.
> > splashscreen starts at boot time by an initramfs immage but when init is
> > called the silent mode is switched to the verbose one.
> > We have already implemented bar processing in the rc and rcS files but the
> > problem is still there.
> >
> > Do you know how to solve this problem?
> 
> I don't *know* anything for sure at this point, but I suspect the
> problem might be caused by the switch-to-verbose-on-read-from-tty0
> feature of fbsplash. You can try commenting out the fbsplash code in
> drivers/char/n_tty.c in the kernel (commenting out the
> 'fbsplash_verbose()' line should be enough) to see if this changes
> anything.
> 
> Live long and prosper.
> --
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> 
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