[Splashy-users] verbose text

Wed Apr 12 15:54:45 UTC 2006

My time is used up with implementing and supporting linux in the education 
system.  I will not be able to contribute to the C code.

The fade in/out effects were improved when I scaled the image down to 640x480 
and disabled the error and f2 in the theme.xml file.  Fade in/out is drawn 
faster on the screen.

The students do not need to see the bootup text.  The progress bar works 
great!

Admin can debug the bootup text by removing the vga=xxx from the kernel 
parameters.

Thanks for the great program!

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 09:57, Luis M wrote:
> 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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> Luis Mondesi
> System Administrator
> Kiskeyix.org
>
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