[Splashy-users] verbose text

Tue Apr 11 16:57:20 UTC 2006

Hello Dean,

I agree with you. We need to improve the text scrolling and
fade-in/out effects. If you know about programming and have time to
spare, you can meet us online in #splashy on irc.freenode.net. We are
on the process to release splashy 0.1.8. It needs more work and as
much help as possible from people interested in it (like you).

If you can code in C, you are most welcome to send patches to
splashy-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org and i'll apply your patches to
the main svn. You can also open bugs in our bug tracking system (see
our wiki page http://splashy.alioth.debian.org for info).

We are trying our best to stabilize splashy before it gets relesaed.
Those were new features added and need more refining.

On 4/11/06, Dean Montgomery <dmonty at sd73.bc.ca> wrote:
> 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
>
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