Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems

[cafairle@engmail.uwaterloo.ca]

If you use the nvidia driver, you might have problems. I tried using fbsplash
with 2.6.12-r6 and -r4 using vidia 7667 drivers, but no luck with rivafb, vesafb
or nvidiafb. I then searched nvidia forums and read their readme and apparently
their driver deosnt support framebuffering very well.

So after spending a day messing with and research fb'ing, i gots nothing but
messed up fonts in xfce which i'm STILL trying to fix and actaully, i might send
a email to the list about it 

chris

Quoting LostSon <lostson@lostsonsvault.org>:

> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> > LostSon schreef:
> > >  Hello 
> > >  I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the
> > > directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb
> > > with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this 
> > > 
> > > title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash
> > > root (hd0,0)
> > > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new25 root=/dev/hda3
> > > video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768@70 spla$
> > > initrd (hd0,0)/fbsplash-gentoo-1024x768
> > > 
> > >  It tries to go to it but it just stays in text mode with no splash it
> > > doesnt even go to 1024x768. I get this when booting
> > > 
> > >  Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768@70
> > > splash=silent,theme:gentoo quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
> > > 
> > >  Im not sure what that means though. Any ideas, thanks.
> > 
> > That means, afaik, that there is an error in the syntax of that specific 
> > line, and you need to fix it, as GRUB can't figure out or even guess 
> > what the heck you mean.
> > 
> > For reference, here's my kernel command line (splash does work for me):
> > 
> > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 
> > video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,mtrr,pmipal,1280x1024-32@60 
> > splash=silent,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
> > 
> > The (main) difference I see is that you have no bit depth specified in 
> > your video= command, but perhaps vesafb doesn't need one. I also see 
> > that I'm using pmipal and you aren't but since I don't even know what 
> > that is anyway, I'll assume it's not important.
> > 
> > So what I'm wondering is-- you're asking for vesafb in the command line, 
> > but is that actually the framebuffer that you've selected in the kernel 
> > (in menuconfig, Device Drivers section =>Graphics support, what is the 
> > actual name of the vesa framebuffer being built)?
> > 
> > Mine looks like
> > 
> > VESA VGA graphics support
> > 
> > VESA driver type (vesafb-tng)  --->
> > 
> > Does it actually say 'vesafb' between your parentheses (as I believe 
> > that vesafb-tng is the default if you enable VESA VGA graphics support)?
> > 
> > Also what version of splashutils, did you recently upgrade the kernel 
> > from 2.6.11, and if so, did you re-generate the splash initrd (there's 
> > an einfo to this effect in the recent splashutils ebuilds)?
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Holly
> 
>  Ok i tried adding that in my line but still no luck alot of what im
> getting is errors about not being able to load config files and fd0 or
> fb0 it goes by so fast and i cannot find these error messages in any of
> my logs either. Im using splashutils-1.1.9.7 btw, thanks
> -- 
> LostSon
> 
> http://www.lostsonsvault.org
> 
> Fox Cities Linux User Group = www.foxlug.org
> 




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