[Debsplash-devel] Re: testing the new bootdown code

[Vincenzo Ampolo]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 22:56 -0600, Charles Henderson wrote:
> Well the problem is that the system is halfway through the shutdown
> process (and the user sees the text output of that half) before the
> jpeg
> is drawn.  The way I see it, there are three options to fix the
> problem:
> 
> 1. Use some method for drawing the jpeg which works MUCH more quickly.
It's is impossible if we wanna have a complete bootsplash
> 
> 2. Give usplash more time to draw the jpeg before finishing bootdown.
this is a very very good idea.. and something on my mind is taking
space... a "sleep 2" on the init script should solve this problem...
btw i'll try also using K00 since K01gdm comes after...
> 
> 3. Suppress the text output of the init or switch to a non-console
> blank
> virtual terminal so that there is simply a black screen until the jpeg
> is drawn.
> 
> I would be interested to hear other ideas but this was all I could
> come
> up with.  The project is looking really good.  Keep on chugging!
> 
THanks for your help and your ideas