On Sat, Feb 2, 2013, at 02:24 PM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > On 2/2/2013 13:19, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > El mar, 29-01-2013 a las 15:55 +0400, Sergey Popov escribió: > >> 28.01.2013 23:26, Pacho Ramos пишет: > >>> Then, looks like no alternative is in good shape on Gentoo. What is > >>> Sabayon using? They look to have plymouth ebuilds in their overlay (but > >>> not in "for-gentoo" one, then, it probably has some incompatibility > >>> Gentoo :/) > >> > >> We have plymouth ebuilds in tree, but they are outdated(see > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430478). > >> > > > > Could anyone summarize the advantages of splashutils over plymouth? As > > both look to be needed of some love in Gentoo, maybe would be better to > > focus on later one (that is the preferred option in most distributions > > and is actively developed) > > > As a user, I can say that one advantage of splashutils over plymouth is > that I could never get the latter to work, whereas the former has worked > on every machine I've tried to use it on (server, desktop, and virtual > machine).
IIRC plymouth requires KMS so if your driver doesn't have KMS support then it doesn't have plymouth support.
