Ubuntu
plymouth package

  1. Bug #727136
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 727136

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 727136] Re: Transition between Plymouth and GDM is not smooth

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:33:10PM -0000, Lee Hyde wrote:
> Do you know whether or not there are any plans for nVidia to implement
> KMS within their proprietary drivers? If not I may play around with the
> nouveau drivers sometime in the near future. I'd avoided them as I'd
> heard that they aren't very compiz/visual effects friendly.

Sorry, I don't know what plans nvidia have for their binary driver. I have
heard that nouveau now has accelerated 3D support for some devices (but not
all).

> Also, can you tell me whether smooth transitions was implemented
> upstream or via patches in Ubuntu (as Fedora appear to have done in the
> past). I'd like to close/amend the upstream bugs I've (perhaps
> prematurely) files if appropriate.

There are two patches applied to the Ubuntu gdm package to integrate with
plymouth. Both are from the plymouth upstream author.

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