[Splashy-users] verbose text

[Dean Montgomery]

We are in the process of converting high schools over to linux.  I would like 
to include splashy to make the boot-up process more appealing.

When I press F2 the text is very slow appearing and is not very verbose.  No 
where near the amount of information that normally scrolls by.

As well the fade in and fade out is slow and choppy.

I am running debian testing/unstable booting a NFS boot diskless (ltsp) 
client.




I am using splashy 0.1.8-0+21

(client)root at server:~# cat /etc/splashy/config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Automatically generated by splashy_config. Do not edit -->
<splashy>
    <!-- themes directory: conventional path /etc/splashy/themes -->
    <themes>/etc/splashy/themes</themes>
    <!-- current theme could be relative the themes defined above or full path 
-->
    <current_theme>default</current_theme>
    <!-- full path to theme to fall back in case of problems. DO NOT CHANGE 
-->
    <default_theme>/etc/splashy/themes/default</default_theme>
    <fifo>/dev/.initramfs/splashy.fifo</fifo>
    <pid>/var/run/splashy.pid</pid>
</splashy>

==============================
The on-board video card is:
VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter 
(rev 01)

(client)root at diskless-linux:~# xdebconfigurator
Detected Xorg server
discover: Bus not found.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/sbin/xdebconfigurator line 
882.
/usr/sbin/detect NOT found!
parse-edid: parse-edid version 1.4.1
get-edid: get-edid version 1.4.1

        Performing real mode VBE call
        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
        Function supported
        Call successful

        VBE version 300
        VBE string at 0xc38d7 "VIA K8M800
"

VBE/DDC service about to be called
        Report DDC capabilities

        Performing real mode VBE call
        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
        Function supported
        Call successful

        Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
        Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
        0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
        Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer

Reading next EDID block

VBE/DDC service about to be called
        Read EDID

        Performing real mode VBE call
        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
        Function supported
        Call successful

parse-edid: EDID checksum passed.
Uhoh.. can't read from /usr/share/hwdata/Cards
VIDEO CARD: vendor|unknown 1106:3108 unknown device
VIDEO CARD DEVICE: 3108
VIDEO CARD VENDOR: 1106
VIDEO DRIVER: vesa
VIDEO DRIVER SRC: defaulting to vesa
VIDEO MEMORY:
POSSIBLE XSERVER: xorg
XSERVER 3:
XSERVER 4:
DEBIAN PACKAGE: xserver-xorg
MOUSE DEVICE SRC: hwinfo
MOUSE DEVICE: /dev/input/mice
MOUSE PROTOCOL: ImPS/2
MOUSE WHEEL: 1
KEYBOARD RULES: xorg
MONITOR: Xdebconfigurator Monitor
MONITOR ID:
SUGGESTED METHOD: Advanced
MONITOR SIZE:
MONITOR HOR SYNC: 30-72
MONITOR VER REFR: 50-130
MONITOR MODES: 1600x1200, 1280x1024, 1280x768, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480
MONITOR MODE: 1024x768 @ 70Hz
MONITOR DEFAULT DEPTH: 16
-- 
Dean Montgomery
Network Support Tech./Programmer
School District #73