[CentOS] why flash the terminal interface when loading the linux system?

[Matthew Miller]

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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