Re: Complete graphical boot for Fedora

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:22:42AM -0400, Kevin A. Wright wrote:
> In all seriousness, what obstacles are there to the implementation of this?

You need to write code that works on every video card. There are a couple
of ways to tackle that. One would be to fallback for non-VGA cards and use
strictly VGA 640x480x16 modes without timing jiggery-pokery.

Another would be to put up a logo/info area on screen by flipping to
512 character text mode and using a mini font that makes up the logo