From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAA6H-0007ez-Nk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:40:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7UHbkcl005209; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:37:46 GMT Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7UHYBeK016686 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:34:11 GMT Received: from aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050830173619.GXWM9239.mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:36:19 +0100 Received: from winn.cable.ntl.com ([82.5.33.210]) by aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050830173619.HGKO3432.aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@winn.cable.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:36:19 +0100 From: Tony Davison Organization: none To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:36:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <430ADD7B.5040208@gmail.com> <200508301035.10439.bshlists@rogers.com> <43147272.3070502@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <43147272.3070502@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508301836.16922.tony.davison2@ntlworld.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9fb8c97d-1a64-43e9-819b-736b3a3a5997 X-Archives-Hash: ee23fc4adc4081a5b08da221eb85621d On Tuesday 30 August 2005 15:51, Holly Bostick wrote: > bshlists schreef: > > Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get > > gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the > > bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. > > Now I remember seeing somewhere a change to a config file which > > would change when the bootsplash started. > > > > I'd appreciate it if someone would remind me how to do this. > > Afaik, it's not a change to a config file, it's a change in the way > you generate the initramfs. > > If you compile it into the kernel (instructions on the Wiki; see > How-to fbsplash), it will start up at the very start. > > If you load it as a separate initrd, you have to wait for the > framebuffer to initialize before the splash can start (which takes a > short while). > > Naturally, if you change from loading an initrd to compiling the > initrd into the kernel, you do have to change a config file > (grub.conf, to remove the initrd= line, since you no longer have > one), but changing the file alone won't make any difference if you > haven't changed the way you create the initrd in the first place. > I have two 2.6.12-r9 kernels ATM one which has framebuffer splash on all ttys and the other which only has boot splash. The bootsplash one starts after the udev message and the other one starts after the initial uncompressing kernel message (which IIRC is when the framebuffer starts, for sure its when the console changes to 1024x768 on this box) As far as I know the .config files were the same apart from the fbsplash support. (can't check now as I've been kernel compiling to test some new scsi hardware:-( and forgot to save the old .config ) If this is not very clear, both kernels have framebuffers, one has bootsplash, and the other has bootsplash and pretty pictures on tty1-6. the initrd is the same in both cases, not in the kernel. Wonderful are the ways of splash. Tony Davison tony.davison2@ntlworld.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list