[syslinux] not sure how to get rid of white screen during boot

[H. Peter Anvin]

3.86 is way old.

"Douglas McClendon" <dmc.syslinux at cloudsession.com> wrote:

>On 02/19/2011 11:51 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 02/19/2011 09:37 PM, Douglas McClendon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> With the most recent kernels, with "quiet vga=current" the graphic
>>>> splash can be retained during the execution of the kernel; in fact
>if
>>>> the resolution is the same some video drivers can actually leave
>the
>>>> image intact during the kernel transition.
>>>
>>> Alternately if I want to go that route, I'd still very much like for
>the
>>> menu text to disappear as soon as the options/menu are no longer
>>> selectable/manipulable by the user.  Having it stay up on the screen
>for
>>> 4 seconds I find aesthetically sub-optimal.  Optimal IMHO would also
>be
>>> having the text fade out in 0.25s, but I don't know how doable that
>is
>>> with the particular console/text system presently in use at the
>time.
>>>
>>
>> The menu text does disappear.
>
>I'm using syslinux-3.86-1.1.el6.i686 from a scientific/rhe/linux 6.0 
>system.  vesamenu.c32 with a background image on an early acer aspire 
>one netbook (intel video I think).  What I see subsequently after I hit
>
>enter on my default linux vga=current presumably kms setup, is the same
>
>screen with menu text and splash held for 4-5 seconds, before a flash
>of 
>all black that looks to also have lcd backlight off, and then a flash
>to 
>all black with backlight on, then I'm pretty sure for temporary
>reasons, 
>the text "Fontconfig: failed to load default config", then a switch to
>a 
>perhaps darker shade of black as plymouth renders its first all black 
>screen of my plymouth-theme.
>
>So its those 4 seconds of looking at that menu after it has become
>'done 
>with' that bother me aesthetically.
>
>What I'd like to see for my own ideal config, is fades for everything. 
>First, 0.25s fading in syslinux splash, then quartersec 
>fadeout(to-black) for both menu text and syslinux splash.  Then maybe 
>linux kms does a lcd backlight flash, then if unavoidable a mostly all 
>black text mode with no text (I can shut up my fontconfig config
>problem 
>and then I think I'm good enough for now), then plymouth with a theme 
>that starts all black, and has entirely smooth fades for its 
>init/handofftogdm.
>
>>
>> Making the text fade would be doable, but I don't think I will
>> personally have time to implement it.
>
>If I find the time (maybe), I'll bring up any questions I run into. 
>The 
>main presumption is the facility of an easy value changable 
>variable/memlocation which can change the rendered text color with 
>sufficient granularity to produce some 5frame or more fade?
>
>-dmc

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