Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash

[Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>]

On Sunday 10 July 2005 18:21, Richard Fish wrote:
> Uwe Thiem wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >"verbose mode" of fbsplash doesn't seem to work any more. If I press F2
> > during the boot process or switch to a text console after booting the
> > background is black instead of showing my specified picture. Same
> > behaviour for the themes emergence, gentoo and my own one. I skipped a
> > couple of kernels, so I am not too sure when it started. Current kernel
> > is 2.6.12-r4.
> >
> >Anybody else seeing this?
>
> Not happening to me.  What are your kernel boot options?  Does
> specifying verbose there work?

No, doesn't work either.

The options are pretty much out of HOWTO.fbsplash:
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/hda2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev 
video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-32@85 splash=silent,theme:sysex
initrd /boot/fbsplash-sysex-1024x768

I just added "udev" for obvious reasons and "CONSOLE" because the kernel 
complained about that option missing (plus, "silent mode" didn't work without 
it either). Could reduce bpp to 16 or some such but then again, why would 
"silent" work while "verbose" doesn't?

I've got another box where everything still works. That one runs an older 
kernel (2.6.9-r3). So I guess it's kernel dependent.

Uwe

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