[gentoo-user] broken splash screen and / or init?

[gentoo-user] broken splash screen and / or init?

[Marc Blumentritt]

Hi list,

I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is
working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are
written an screen "above" (for lack of a better word) my splash. When
the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is moving
upwards with every new line printed. When the messages reach "Starting
XDM" the screen is not switched to the 7th terminal, where X is running.
I have to switch manually by pressing alt-F7.

Any ideas, what's wrong and how I can get back my normal boot? Could
this be connected to the kernel? I remember, switching some general
options in the kernel config (I think in "Processor type and features"
Tickless System, High resolution timer support, preemption model
(desktop) and timer frequency (1000)).

Thanks for any input.

Marc

Re: [gentoo-user] broken splash screen and / or init?

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 01:03:04PM +0100, Marc Blumentritt wrote:

> I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is
> working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are
> written an screen "above" (for lack of a better word) my splash. When
> the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is moving
> upwards with every new line printed. When the messages reach "Starting
> XDM" the screen is not switched to the 7th terminal, where X is running.
> I have to switch manually by pressing alt-F7.

If you think that both bugs are related, you should do an "all in one"
bug report. Add some more information like your boot line command,
.config content and your 'emmerge --info'.

If you have time enough, you can try to find by yourself what you did to
get this bug. Is the problem related to a kernel upgrade for example ?

> Any ideas, what's wrong and how I can get back my normal boot? 

I'd get the rid of the splash option at the boot line command but it's
probably not what you're expecting for. Don't know what a "normal" boot
is.

>                                                                Could
> this be connected to the kernel? 

Yes.

>                                  I remember, switching some general
> options in the kernel config (I think in "Processor type and features"
> Tickless System, High resolution timer support, preemption model
> (desktop) and timer frequency (1000)).

Well, playing with these options won't help. By "this can be related to
the kernel" I think about an internal bug from the kernel.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] broken splash screen and / or init?

[Gregory Shearman]

Marc Blumentritt wrote:

> I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is
> working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are
> written an screen "above" (for lack of a better word) my splash. When
> the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is moving
> upwards with every new line printed. When the messages reach "Starting
> XDM" the screen is not switched to the 7th terminal, where X is running.
> I have to switch manually by pressing alt-F7.

The problem is with your linuxrc file in the initrd (you are using genkernel 
to build your initrd, right?) There's a mistake in the section which parses 
the kernel command line so that it misses the CONSOLE=tty1 bit... causing it 
to write all over the splash screen.

There's already a bug report (#232012) on this filed in july and I've supplied 
information about how to work around this bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232012

Let's hope the genkernel developers get the time to fix this.

-- 
Regards,

Gregory.