Re: [gentoo-user] Fbsplash

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 23 June 2011 17:28:15 Dale did opine thusly:
> John wrote:
> > Since upgrading my kernel to .39 my beloved splash screen has
> > stopped working. I have followed guidelines in wiki that
> > someone has very kindly written. Reverting back to older kernel
> > the splash screen works as expected. I've tried this on 2
> > machines. I have seen somewhere that a patch is added to kernel
> > to help this. Is this included in .39?
> > 
> > I believe the issue maybe due to /sbin/fbcondecor_helper in
> > initrd but not really too sure. My debugging skills are lacking
> > somewhat.
> > 
> > Has anyone else experienced this and can anyone offer an
> > alternative method for producing splash.
> > 
> > I am currently using vesafb and splash_geninitramfs to create
> > splash screens?
> 
> I have noticed that people seem to have various issues with .39. 
> Maybe roll back to a older kernel and give it a few versions to get
> some fixes in.  I had X issues, someone else had some network issue
> and someone else has some other odd issue.  I think .39 is
> currently a lemon.
> 
> If you can make it with the old .38 version, I would.  At least for
> a little bit anyway.

.39 screwed up my nouveau frame buffer, took a lot of frantic hit and 
miss with graphics options to get it back.

.38 was rock-solid

I wonder what 3.0 will be like


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com