Graphical boot isn't so graphical

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Jul 23 09:53:57 UTC 2003


> X feels too heavyweight for this purpose.
> 
> Seems like it should be framebuffer approach.  You could probably do it
> all in one binary instead of moving "all of X" to the root filesystem.
> 
> Just wonder the what the rationale is of using X over a frame buffer
> approach.

-	Only one thing breaks if we use X11, so either rhgb & desktop 
	work, or neither work

-	The only mode we could safely switch to/from would be generic
	VGA modes (640x480x16)

I did suggest doing that display using text mode, and carefully built
custom font but that has issues as well.





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