On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 06:40:15PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi, > > It doesn't really need vesafb for anything. Back in the days of 2.6.7 > > I used to release a version of bootsplash that had the dep. on vesafb > > removed. It worked fine with at least some other fb drivers. > > > > You might also want to save yourself some work and try out an > > alternative solution called fbsplash [1], which I designed after I got > > tired of fixing bootsplash and which I actively maintain. Fbsplash > > provides virtually the same functionality, and it has as much code as > > possible moved into userspace (no more JPEG decoders in the kernel). > mls suggested that there were some problems with matroxfb in the > past. Have you seen something like that?
Possibly, but I can't recall what exactly was it about. All bugs in fbsplash, that I have known of, have been fixed. If there are still some problems with any fb drivers, please let me know. Live long and prosper. -- Michal 'Spock' Januszewski Gentoo Linux Developer cell: +48504917690 http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/ JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] freenode: #gentoo-dev, #gentoo-pl
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