Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:31:14 -0800 | From | Miles Lane <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1 |
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Martin Laberge wrote:
> Juergen Schneider wrote: > > >> Hello everybody, >> >> I've created a patch for kernel 2.4.1 that adds some fancy options for >> the framebuffer console driver concerning the boot logo. >> I've added logo animation and logo centering. >> People may find this not very useful but nice to look at. :-) >> >> It can be downloaded from: >> <ftp://ftp.tuxia.com/pub/linux/tuxia/anim-logo/AnimLogo.tgz> >> >> With this tar ball comes the patch for kernel 2.4.1 and a small >> program called xpm2splash to create animated linux_logo.h files >> from XPM files. >> The patch also contains an animated boot logo (that's why it is >> so big). >> It is the dancing penguin I've taken from the apache default >> configuration of a SuSE 6.4 distribution. >> (BTW who created this nice animation???) >> >> So, try it and send your comments. >> >> Juergen Schneider >> >> PS: The patch should work with kernel 2.4.0 too. >> >> PPS: Our FTP server seems to have some problems with the "ls" >> command. You should use "ls -l" or "dir" to get a >> directory listing. Sorry for that. >> >> -- >> Dipl.-Inf. Juergen Schneider <juergen.schneider@tuxia.com> >> TUXIA Deutschland GmbH > > > I beleive it is a very good idea... there has been many objections where > SYSTEM-HANG or CRASH or ANY-BAD-THING > would be difficult to trace for the geek... BUT , are you all believing the > system will be crashing most of the time, or will it be > running perfectly most of the time...
Linux does crash early in the boot process sometimes. Folks are correct to be worried about handling these early crashes in such a way that the user can learn what is going wrong with the OS.
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> I believe linux should be one of those systems... you start it and then use > it... it don't crash, don't hang... it works...
It does crash and users can't know when it will happen ahead of time. For example, I add a new piece of hardware that triggers a driver bug and BANG, the machine locks up on boot.
Now, we can still have a "innocuous pretty boot" process, as long as a boot parameter can be passed so that when a kernel is crashing early in the boot process, the user can disable the prettyboot and get to all the kernel messages.
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Miles
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