Progress and transitions

[Daire Byrne]

Ray,

----- "Ray Strode" <halfline at gmail.com> wrote:
> You want /var/lib/plymouth/boot-duration not
> /usr/share/plymouth/default-boot-duration

Ah yes that's more like it - thanks.

> > Also should the "radeon(hd)" KMS driver not be able to transition
> seamlessly to the GDM screen?
> radeon should be able to, but radeonhd can't as far as I know.

I see. I think only the radeonhd driver supports our R500+ cards so 
we are stuck with that for the time being. GDM transitions aren't 
that important.

> You basically need a driver that supports backing: 
>  X -nr
> Also, make sure you're using a build of GDM that supports the
> transition. I think you're using a standard Fedora build though?

Yes - Fedora 11 but with our own initrd that configures the network rootfs.

> The upstream bug for tracking those patches is here:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572173
> > Finally, how does plymouth get called when doing a shutdown or
> reboot?
> We ship this file in /etc/event.d:
> 
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=blob_plain;f=event.d/plymouth-shutdown
> 
> Which starts plymouthd in "shutdown" mode

I see. On closer inspection it looks like that is being called but I just get
a blank black screen when shutting down. I suspect this is related to the way
busybox is setting up the initial console compared to when booting from the
Fedora initrd. I will try and get some more debug info out of it.

Thanks for the help.

Daire