[Splashy-devel] Bug#503885: Bug#503885: splashy fails to detect framebuffer-mode if used with lilo

[Tim Dijkstra]

Luis Mondesi schreef:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Darshaka Pathirana <dpat at syn-net.org>
> wrote:
>> Package: splashy
>> Version: 0.3.10-2
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> /etc/init.d/splashy tries to detect a valid framebuffer mode by
>> looking in "/proc/cmdline" (to start splashy if not started in
>> initramfs).
>>
>> The problem is that lilo has it's own "vga=" line and therefore
>> "/proc/cmdline" does neither contain "vga" nor "video".
>
> valid point! I thought nobody really uses lilo anymore...
>
> is there anything that says "i'm using lilo" while the system is
> booting? we might need to just check for "splash" on the cmdline file
> and try to start splashy ... the worse that can happen is that the
> user will get a -2 error (directfb cannot get a framebuffer).

Yes, I agree, all this checking and double checking is a bit useless. The
check in splashy itself should be enough.

grts Tim