On Dec 31, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:12:44PM +0100, Raphael Bossek wrote: > > for all of you looking for a graphical start screen, this is the right > > patch. I've modified it a little bit > > so more init scripts are supported and a additional patch against the > > latest linux-2.4.0-test12 is part of > > this tarball too! > > AFAIK there is a problem with this patch since some of the copyright > messages of the drivers are not displayed anymore. since some of them > require the Copyright announcement, this is a violation of the license. As > far as I know that was the reason for not putting that patch into the > kernel, long ago.
Not to open a can of worms, but is that requirement compatible with the GPL? In any event, something like a small xconsole session should handle this problem (put about 5 lines at the bottom of the screen with the messages scrolling by at ridiculous speed). The other solution is to collect all of the copyright messages and stick them in a separate message buffer that is displayed at the end of booting. It would definitely be a cleaner approach... but you'd need a new printk-like function to handle it. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Computer Systems Manager (Physics & Astronomy, 125 Lewis, 662-915-5765) Instructor, POL 101 (Political Science, 208 Deupree, 662-915-5949)
