[Splashy-devel] Re: dapper livecd w/splashy

[Vincenzo Ampolo]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 14:36 -1000, Johnathan Davis wrote:
> Aloha,
Hi
> 
> I first noticed your site over a year ago and it looks great! I run a 
> computer repair company here in Honolulu, and discovered splashy
Wow, i hope to go there to spent my holidays when i'll get enought
moneys :D
>  
> required additional video memory in order to display properly. This was 
> ok for desktops, but bad for old laptops. So I put splashy on hold and 
> tried my luck with usplash.
> 
> I would like to incorporate splashy into the latest Dapper live CD. 
> Particularly, how would you modify Casper and Isolinux so the live cd 
> knows to start splashy instead of usplash. The current Dapper live cd 
> already has usplash, but any enhancements to it breaks the live cd by 
> causing kernel panics. I really want to upgrade the kernel, but its 
> impossible to upgrade usplash.
Splashy needs a framebuffer, i don't know how to do it with isolinux,
with grub or lilo i add "vga=791" to the kernel options. You should find
how to do the same with Isolinux.
Then when the init script of splashy-init starts it calculates the init
scripts for the progressbar and starts splashy server. 

So the whole thing that you have to do is to install splashy on your cd
image and set isolinux to send vga=791 to the kernel.
> 
> Could you please assist me? Hope to talk to you soon.

if you want more help mail me.
I can assist you more when i'll end my exams after 4th of July.
> 
> Mahalo,
> 
> Johnathan Davis

In my country we say: "Ciao"

Best Regards

-- 
Vincenzo Ampolo <vincenzo.ampolo at gmail.com>
http://www.nanofreesoft.org
http://vincenzoampolo.nanofreesoft.org
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