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( [24.5.232.151]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id w28sm1064441pyc.2006.04.16.23.11.36; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 23:11:55 -0700 (PDT) From: lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X11 + framebuffer - does it work? Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:02:44 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <44418272.9030208@tiscali.co.uk> <7573e9640604151955n31298406j689081bad5ddfb62@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640604151955n31298406j689081bad5ddfb62@mail.gmail.com> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2073257.hcvYldKby9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604160002.47826.lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2ec0a329-1a59-4a4b-ab3f-280127c6637c X-Archives-Hash: 8883b63c001d80177c5484e5c205bc6f --nextPart2073257.hcvYldKby9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 15 April 2006 07:55 pm, Richard Fish wrote: > On 4/15/06, Rohit and Bhavana wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there anyone on the list who has the following configured on their > > workstations? > > > > * bootsplash giving them a nice picture at the startup [ in runlevel > > boot] I do that on my laptop. IBM X40 Type 2386-1CU with some weird Intel Extrem= e=20 Graphics II chip I've never previously heard of and honestly don't want to= =20 see again (it really sucks - the X40's wonderfully light though, I'd=20 reccommend it any day! Works perfectly with Linux, too!) > > * bootsplash giving them a nice picture later [ in runlevel default] You mean like the livecd-2006.0 theme? Where it has pretty framebuffer=20 graphics and puts console at 1024x768 (a must-have, IMHO) but then has a=20 picturized boot process? Yeah, I do that. Then by whacking F2 I can go ba= ck=20 to the verbose process but still with the pretty graphics. The info you need is in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash (as reccommen= ded=20 to me by Bo Andresen). > > * Then X11 starting on their nvidia card configured with xf86 or > > xorg with X working in default runlevel On my server I'm working to get spash working with an nVidia card. The=20 problems aren't from the nVidia card, however, but rather from Genkernel,=20 which I find totally inferior to make in every way (why do I need to=20 recompile the whole kernel every time? I know, I've been spoiled by only=20 compiling what's changed). > > * Switching back to consol with control-alt-F[n] and being able to > > work without locking up your box - and without framebuffer > > corruption. Never had a problem here. When I kill X11 and KDM for a console login, it= =20 goes back to the beautified console, but sacrificing no functionality that = I=20 know of. > I have all of this working on my Dell e1705 laptop. Significant details: > > 2.6.15-suspend2-r8 > [ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756 0 kB > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r3 USE=3D"dri -debug -ipv6 > -minimal -xprint" 0 kB > > Also I use the vesafb-tng framebuffer driver. > > > If yes, then if you know anyone has everything working, I would be > > obliged to note the version numbers etc and any pointers. > > > > - not being clear about difference between gensplash and bootsplash > > [they seem to serve the same purpose] which one should I use on my > > system. Should I emerge one, or both or one of them and themes for both? I used splashutils with great success. I can't comment about any others=20 though - I've never tried them. > I would suggest not dealing with bootsplash issues at this point, and > work on getting a stable framebuffer working. Once you have that, the > bootsplash side of things is pretty straight-forward. I'd reccommend that Wiki. I walked through it and came out alive, and with= =20 linux looking artful enough to shut up all the Windoze zealots that I am=20 burdened to come into contact with. --nextPart2073257.hcvYldKby9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEQewXHcNVi48i054RAl+2AKCtzAF8av95xwWdButIZxp9WIT2pgCZAVnt Ajr2hTQx6GZWbAldjcGcsOc= =I10y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2073257.hcvYldKby9-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list