X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Wed Oct 29 20:59:28 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann (kraxel at redhat.com) said: 
>> Read the mail again.  All of it.  Last paragraph suggests to run
>> plymouth on tty7 to keep the cross-fading effect.
> 
> Which either requires disgusting kernel convolutions (as stated
> before), or doing it in plymouth userspace... which still gets you
> a vt switch, as ttys have been initiated at that point.

Do it in plymouth userspace of course (requiring a patched kernel would
be insane).  Before anything is displayed on the screen, so you switch
from black tty1 to black tty7.  No visible flicker, see?

cheers,
  Gerd




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