Re: [Tails-dev] tails plymouth theme

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Asunto: Re: [Tails-dev] tails plymouth theme
06/01/2012 10:32 AM, Ague Mill:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 07:25:52PM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
>> anonym wrote (29 May 2012 13:17:16 GMT) :
>>> I have tested it on three different (real metal) systems and in
>>> virtualbox successfully. Unless someone actually experienced any issues
>>> I'd say we merge this ASAP so it can hit Tails 0.12.
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> I have pushed one more commit to `feature/tails-plymouth-theme` which
> adds the nouveau driver. I have splendidly tested it on a system with
> some NVidia adapter.


Great!

> Initially, I also wanted to add video drivers for virtualization
> software. Unfortunately, no drivers happen to support Kernel Mode
> Setting at the moment:

[...]
>  * VirtualBox: code is written and it should be shipped in 4.2,
>    according to <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxOTk>.


But will this help? The VirtualBox guest modules are loaded pretty late
during boot.

> It looks like things are moving because of Wayland. Good, but a little
> annoying at the moment.


Annoying but not really worse than before. The only drawback of merging
this is the inconsistency users may experience when booting the same
Tails on different hardware. On systems with a KMS/DRM enabled drivers
s/he gets the new, flashy theme, but on systems without s/he gets text
only theme.

In Tails the text only theme diplays "Debian 6.0.x" after some time (I
can only see this when booting from DVD). For some additional
consistency we could try to change this to "Booting Tails".
Unfortunately that seems to be hardcoded in the plymouth text theme, so
we'd have to make a new 'tails-text' theme. Hmm.

I any case, I think the current state of tnat branch is an over-all
improvement. I'll merge this into devel for the 0.12 release unless
someone objects.

Cheers!