[CentOS] why flash the terminal interface when loading the linux system?
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Aug 29 16:42:44 UTC 2010
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:53:06PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> I think the OP is seeing the console login screen *briefly* between the
> end of the startup and the appearence of the GUI login screen. He
> probably has the (default) graphical startup (which shows a graphical
> progress bar screen instead of the 'Starting foo [OK]' lines on the
> system console. Once the startup finishes, the graphical progress bar
> screen goes away, the console login screen shows up (briefly) and then
> gdm starts the X server for its GUI login screen.
Note that with newer kernels and drivers which support KMS (kernel mode
setting), the "flash" isn't necessary. You'll see this improved on RHEL 6.
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Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/>
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