[gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[John Dangler]

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I setup my grub.conf so that I could see the splash screen on startup - but
it doesn't show.  Did I miss something?

grub.conf has ". vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-32@85
splash=silent"

 

was there something else I needed to do in order for this to work?

John D

 


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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Joshua Armstrong]

the vga= line contradicts the video= line.  Try dropping the vga=
argument.

On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
> I setup my grub.conf so that I could see the splash screen on startup
> – but it doesn’t show.  Did I miss something?
> 
> grub.conf has “… vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-32@85
> splash=silent”
> 
>  
> 
> was there something else I needed to do in order for this to work?
> 
> John D
> 
>  
> 
> 

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RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[John Dangler]

Joshua~
removing the vga= statement only makes the font size much larger on startup,
but doesn't produce the splash.  I also tried removing the video= but that
doesn't do it, either.  what else could I be missing?



-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Armstrong [mailto:jarmstrong@wi.rr.com] 
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:28 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

the vga= line contradicts the video= line.  Try dropping the vga=
argument.

On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
> I setup my grub.conf so that I could see the splash screen on startup
> - but it doesn't show.  Did I miss something?
> 
> grub.conf has ". vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1024x768-32@85
> splash=silent"
> 
>  
> 
> was there something else I needed to do in order for this to work?
> 
> John D
> 
>  
> 
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Nagatoro]

John Dangler wrote:
> doesn't do it, either.  what else could I be missing?

 From my /boot/grub/grub.conf
---
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\
    video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-16@60\
    splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev
initrd (hd0,0)/splash
---

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Holly Bostick]

Nagatoro schreef:
> John Dangler wrote:
> 
>> doesn't do it, either.  what else could I be missing?
> 
> 
> From my /boot/grub/grub.conf
> ---
> kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\
>    video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-16@60\
>    splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev
> initrd (hd0,0)/splash
> ---
> 

In my experience, the livecd theme (all versions) is broken. Silent
gives me a kernel panic, verbose halts, unable to find the 8bpp pix.

Try emergence. That one seems to work.

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Nagatoro]

Holly Bostick wrote:
> Nagatoro schreef:
> In my experience, the livecd theme (all versions) is broken. Silent
> gives me a kernel panic, verbose halts, unable to find the 8bpp pix.
> 
> Try emergence. That one seems to work.

Don't like it :)
The only problem with this one is that sometimes (!) it doesn't use the 
right resolution, but might be because I got it when 2005.0 was new?

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Chris Cox]

On Monday 15 August 2005 12:57 am, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Nagatoro schreef:
> > John Dangler wrote:
> >> doesn't do it, either.  what else could I be missing?
> >
> > From my /boot/grub/grub.conf
> > ---
> > kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\
> >    video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-16@60\
> >    splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev
> > initrd (hd0,0)/splash
> > ---
>
> In my experience, the livecd theme (all versions) is broken. Silent
> gives me a kernel panic, verbose halts, unable to find the 8bpp pix.
>
> Try emergence. That one seems to work.
>
> Holly

I've never had any problems getting either livecd2005.0 or 2005.1

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Holly Bostick]

Chris Cox schreef:
> On Monday 15 August 2005 12:57 am, Holly Bostick wrote:
> 
>>Nagatoro schreef:
>>
>>>John Dangler wrote:
>>>
>>>>doesn't do it, either.  what else could I be missing?
>>>
>>>From my /boot/grub/grub.conf
>>>---
>>>kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\
>>>   video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-16@60\
>>>   splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev
>>>initrd (hd0,0)/splash
>>>---
>>
>>In my experience, the livecd theme (all versions) is broken. Silent
>>gives me a kernel panic, verbose halts, unable to find the 8bpp pix.
>>
>>Try emergence. That one seems to work.
>>
>>Holly
> 
> 
> I've never had any problems getting either livecd2005.0 or 2005.1
> 

Would you share your grub.conf line, the listing of files in the
/etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/images directory, and the text of
/etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/1280x1024.cfg, if it's not too much trouble?
Neither livecd theme (2005.0 or 2005.1) works for me (and they both fail
in exactly the same way), so I'd like to know why if possible (just
haven't had time to dedicate to investigating it). I'd much rather be
using that theme than emergence (even though emergence has a matching
GDM theme. I don't care. I don't like emergence very much :) ).

Thanks,
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Chris Cox]

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On Tuesday 16 August 2005 02:28 pm, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Chris Cox schreef:
> > On Monday 15 August 2005 12:57 am, Holly Bostick wrote:
> >>Nagatoro schreef:
> >>>John Dangler wrote:
> >>>>doesn't do it, either.  what else could I be missing?
> >>>
> >>>From my /boot/grub/grub.conf
> >>>---
> >>>kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\
> >>>   video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-16@60\
> >>>   splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev
> >>>initrd (hd0,0)/splash
> >>>---
> >>
> >>In my experience, the livecd theme (all versions) is broken. Silent
> >>gives me a kernel panic, verbose halts, unable to find the 8bpp pix.
> >>
> >>Try emergence. That one seems to work.
> >>
> >>Holly
> >
> > I've never had any problems getting either livecd2005.0 or 2005.1
>
> Would you share your grub.conf line, the listing of files in the
> /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/images directory, and the text of
> /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/1280x1024.cfg, if it's not too much trouble?
> Neither livecd theme (2005.0 or 2005.1) works for me (and they both fail
> in exactly the same way), so I'd like to know why if possible (just
> haven't had time to dedicate to investigating it). I'd much rather be
> using that theme than emergence (even though emergence has a matching
> GDM theme. I don't care. I don't like emergence very much :) ).
>
> Thanks,
> Holly

I suppose I could do that if it would help. It isn't anything special I'm sure 
but when I wanted to try putting my root file system on LVM2 I had to make me 
an initrd so even though I hate Genkernel I used it just to build the initrd 
so thats why that is in my grub.conf.

I attatched them to this thread.

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 15:00:03 up 13:02,  9 users,  load average: 0.65, 0.41, 0.31

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root (hd0,1)
default 1
timeout 10

color white/blue black/light-gray
splashimage=/boot/grub/seasplash.xpm.gz

#splashimage=/boot/images/ESA_Mars.xpm.gz
#splashimage=/boot/images/penguins.xpm.gz
#splashimage=/boot/images/mars.xpm.gz
#splashimage=/boot/images/DigitalAnGeL.xpm.gz


title 2.6.12-Suspend2-r4 /dev/hdc
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.12-suspend2-r4 udev dolvm2 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/mapper/tmp-gentoo init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1600x1200-16@85 splash=verbose,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-suspend2-r4

title Gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r7
kernel /boot/linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r7 udev dolvm2 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/mapper/sys-slash init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1600x1200-16@85 splash=verbose,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
initrd /boot/initramfs-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r7

title Gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 udev dolvm2 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/mapper/sys-slash init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1600x1200-16@85 splash=silent,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
initrd /boot/initramfs-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6


title Gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r5
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 udev dolvm2 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/mapper/sys-slash init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1600x1200-16@85 splash=silent,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
initrd /boot/initramfs-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r5


title  Gentoo Linux (single user)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz udev dolvm2 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/mapper/sys-slash init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1600x1200-16@85 splash=verbose,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1  single
initrd /boot/initramfs-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6

title Boot from floppy
# hide (hd0,0)
# unhide (hd0,1)
# hide (hd0,2)
chainloader (fd0)+1

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/etc/splash/livecd-2005.0/:
total 102K
drwxr-xr-x  2 1.7K May  4 16:25 icons
drwxr-xr-x  2  480 May  4 16:25 images
drwxr-xr-x  2  144 May  4 16:25 scripts
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K May  4 16:25 1024x768.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K May  4 16:25 1280x1024.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K May  4 16:25 1600x1200.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K May  4 16:25 640x480.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K May  4 16:25 800x600.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1  833 May  4 16:25 README
-rw-r--r--  1 5.9K May  4 16:25 Vera.copyright
-r--r--r--  1  65K May  4 16:25 Vera.ttf
drwxr-xr-x  2   72 May  4 16:25 temp

/etc/splash/livecd-2005.0/icons:
total 224K
lrwxrwxrwx  1   13 Jul 22 07:16 apmd_lit.png -> acpid_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   15 Jul 22 07:16 apmd_unlit.png -> acpid_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   17 Jul 22 07:16 metalog_lit.png -> syslog-ng_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   19 Jul 22 07:16 metalog_unlit.png -> syslog-ng_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath0_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath0_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan0_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan0_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   12 Jul 22 07:16 ntp-client_lit.png -> ntpd_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   14 Jul 22 07:16 ntp-client_unlit.png -> ntpd_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   17 Jul 22 07:16 sysklogd_lit.png -> syslog-ng_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   19 Jul 22 07:16 sysklogd_unlit.png -> syslog-ng_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   17 Jul 22 07:16 ulogd_lit.png -> syslog-ng_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   19 Jul 22 07:16 ulogd_unlit.png -> syslog-ng_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.4K May  4 16:25 acpid_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.2K May  4 16:25 acpid_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.8K May  4 16:25 alsasound_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.6K May  4 16:25 alsasound_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.9K May  4 16:25 bootmisc_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.6K May  4 16:25 bootmisc_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.3K May  4 16:25 checkfs_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 2.9K May  4 16:25 checkfs_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.7K May  4 16:25 clock_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.5K May  4 16:25 clock_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.2K May  4 16:25 coldplug_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.7K May  4 16:25 coldplug_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.5K May  4 16:25 gpm_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.3K May  4 16:25 gpm_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.2K May  4 16:25 keymaps_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.3K May  4 16:25 keymaps_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 6.0K May  4 16:25 mkxf86config_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 5.5K May  4 16:25 mkxf86config_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.4K May  4 16:25 net.eth0_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.2K May  4 16:25 net.eth0_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.1K May  4 16:25 netmount_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.6K May  4 16:25 netmount_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.3K May  4 16:25 ntpd_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.0K May  4 16:25 ntpd_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.4K May  4 16:25 pcmcia_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.1K May  4 16:25 pcmcia_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.0K May  4 16:25 pwgen_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.0K May  4 16:25 pwgen_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.3K May  4 16:25 samba_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.9K May  4 16:25 samba_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.4K May  4 16:25 syslog-ng_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.3K May  4 16:25 syslog-ng_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.8K May  4 16:25 xdm_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.6K May  4 16:25 xdm_unlit.png

/etc/splash/livecd-2005.0/images:
total 4.6M
-rw-r--r--  1 510K May  4 16:25 background-1024x768.png
-rw-r--r--  1 639K May  4 16:25 background-1280x1024.png
-rw-r--r--  1 815K May  4 16:25 background-1600x1200.png
-rw-r--r--  1 168K May  4 16:25 background-640x480.png
-rw-r--r--  1 286K May  4 16:25 background-800x600.png
-rw-r--r--  1 2.9K May  4 16:25 iconbar_text.png
-rw-r--r--  1 464K May  4 16:25 verbose-1024x768.png
-rw-r--r--  1 616K May  4 16:25 verbose-1280x1024.png
-rw-r--r--  1 733K May  4 16:25 verbose-1600x1200.png
-rw-r--r--  1 140K May  4 16:25 verbose-640x480.png
-rw-r--r--  1 248K May  4 16:25 verbose-800x600.png

/etc/splash/livecd-2005.0/scripts:
total 16K
-rwxr-xr-x  1 3.1K May  4 16:25 list_svc.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1  221 May  4 16:25 rc_exit-post
-rwxr-xr-x  1 5.8K May  4 16:25 rc_init-pre

/etc/splash/livecd-2005.0/temp:
total 0
/etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/:
total 127K
drwxr-xr-x  2 2.8K Jul 17 00:03 icons
drwxr-xr-x  2  960 Jul 17 00:03 images
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 1024x768.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 1280x1024.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 1280x768.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 1280x960.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 1400x1050.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 1440x900.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 1600x1200.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 1680x1050.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 1920x1200.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 640x480.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1 1.2K Jul 17 00:03 800x600.cfg
-rw-r--r--  1  789 Jul 17 00:03 README
-rw-r--r--  1 5.9K Jul 17 00:03 Vera.copyright
-r--r--r--  1  65K Jul 17 00:03 Vera.ttf
drwxr-xr-x  2  112 Jul 17 00:03 scripts
drwxr-xr-x  2   96 Jul 17 00:03 temp

/etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/icons:
total 224K
lrwxrwxrwx  1   13 Jul 22 07:16 apmd_lit.png -> acpid_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   15 Jul 22 07:16 apmd_unlit.png -> acpid_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   17 Jul 22 07:16 metalog_lit.png -> syslog-ng_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   19 Jul 22 07:16 metalog_unlit.png -> syslog-ng_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath0_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath0_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath1_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath1_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath2_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath2_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath3_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath3_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath4_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath4_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath5_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.ath5_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.eth1_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.eth1_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.eth2_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.eth2_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.eth3_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.eth3_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.eth4_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.eth4_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.eth5_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.eth5_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan0_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan0_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan1_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan1_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan2_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan2_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan3_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan3_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan4_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan4_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   16 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan5_lit.png -> net.eth0_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   18 Jul 22 07:16 net.wlan5_unlit.png -> net.eth0_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   12 Jul 22 07:16 ntp-client_lit.png -> ntpd_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   14 Jul 22 07:16 ntp-client_unlit.png -> ntpd_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   17 Jul 22 07:16 sysklogd_lit.png -> syslog-ng_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   19 Jul 22 07:16 sysklogd_unlit.png -> syslog-ng_unlit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   17 Jul 22 07:16 ulogd_lit.png -> syslog-ng_lit.png
lrwxrwxrwx  1   19 Jul 22 07:16 ulogd_unlit.png -> syslog-ng_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.4K Jul 17 00:03 acpid_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.2K Jul 17 00:03 acpid_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.8K Jul 17 00:03 alsasound_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.6K Jul 17 00:03 alsasound_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.9K Jul 17 00:03 bootmisc_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.6K Jul 17 00:03 bootmisc_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.3K Jul 17 00:03 checkfs_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 2.9K Jul 17 00:03 checkfs_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.7K Jul 17 00:03 clock_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.5K Jul 17 00:03 clock_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.2K Jul 17 00:03 coldplug_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.7K Jul 17 00:03 coldplug_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.5K Jul 17 00:03 gpm_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.3K Jul 17 00:03 gpm_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.2K Jul 17 00:03 keymaps_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.3K Jul 17 00:03 keymaps_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 6.0K Jul 17 00:03 mkxf86config_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 5.5K Jul 17 00:03 mkxf86config_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.4K Jul 17 00:03 net.eth0_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.2K Jul 17 00:03 net.eth0_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.1K Jul 17 00:03 netmount_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.6K Jul 17 00:03 netmount_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.3K Jul 17 00:03 ntpd_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.0K Jul 17 00:03 ntpd_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.4K Jul 17 00:03 pcmcia_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.1K Jul 17 00:03 pcmcia_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.0K Jul 17 00:03 pwgen_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.0K Jul 17 00:03 pwgen_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.3K Jul 17 00:03 samba_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 3.9K Jul 17 00:03 samba_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.4K Jul 17 00:03 syslog-ng_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.3K Jul 17 00:03 syslog-ng_unlit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.8K Jul 17 00:03 xdm_lit.png
-rw-r--r--  1 4.6K Jul 17 00:03 xdm_unlit.png

/etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/images:
total 13M
-rw-r--r--  1 510K Jul 17 00:03 background-1024x768.png
-rw-r--r--  1 639K Jul 17 00:03 background-1280x1024.png
-rw-r--r--  1 493K Jul 17 00:03 background-1280x768.png
-rw-r--r--  1 651K Jul 17 00:03 background-1280x960.png
-rw-r--r--  1 710K Jul 17 00:03 background-1400x1050.png
-rw-r--r--  1 653K Jul 17 00:03 background-1440x900.png
-rw-r--r--  1 815K Jul 17 00:03 background-1600x1200.png
-rw-r--r--  1 771K Jul 17 00:03 background-1680x1050.png
-rw-r--r--  1 883K Jul 17 00:03 background-1920x1200.png
-rw-r--r--  1 168K Jul 17 00:03 background-640x480.png
-rw-r--r--  1 286K Jul 17 00:03 background-800x600.png
-rw-r--r--  1 2.9K Jul 17 00:03 iconbar_text.png
-rw-r--r--  1 464K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-1024x768.png
-rw-r--r--  1 616K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-1280x1024.png
-rw-r--r--  1 424K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-1280x768.png
-rw-r--r--  1 579K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-1280x960.png
-rw-r--r--  1 633K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-1400x1050.png
-rw-r--r--  1 575K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-1440x900.png
-rw-r--r--  1 733K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-1600x1200.png
-rw-r--r--  1 683K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-1680x1050.png
-rw-r--r--  1 789K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-1920x1200.png
-rw-r--r--  1 140K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-640x480.png
-rw-r--r--  1 248K Jul 17 00:03 verbose-800x600.png

/etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/scripts:
total 12K
-rwxr--r--  1  105 Jul 17 00:03 rc_exit-post
-rwxr--r--  1 4.4K Jul 17 00:03 rc_init-pre

/etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/temp:
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 0 Jul 17 00:03 *

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Uwe Thiem]

On 16 August 2005 20:28, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Chris Cox schreef:

> > I've never had any problems getting either livecd2005.0 or 2005.1
>
> Would you share your grub.conf line, the listing of files in the
> /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/images directory, and the text of
> /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/1280x1024.cfg, if it's not too much trouble?
> Neither livecd theme (2005.0 or 2005.1) works for me (and they both fail
> in exactly the same way), so I'd like to know why if possible (just
> haven't had time to dedicate to investigating it). I'd much rather be
> using that theme than emergence (even though emergence has a matching
> GDM theme. I don't care. I don't like emergence very much :) ).

Do you realise that it's rather easy to create your own splash theme if you 
use genkernel? Even with a matching background picture for grub. If people 
wee interested in it I could post a step-by-step recipe. 

Uwe

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RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[John Dangler]

Uwe~
Yes, please share!  I'd be interested to see how this goes together
John D


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From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:uwix@iway.na] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:22 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

On 16 August 2005 20:28, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Chris Cox schreef:

> > I've never had any problems getting either livecd2005.0 or 2005.1
>
> Would you share your grub.conf line, the listing of files in the
> /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/images directory, and the text of
> /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/1280x1024.cfg, if it's not too much trouble?
> Neither livecd theme (2005.0 or 2005.1) works for me (and they both fail
> in exactly the same way), so I'd like to know why if possible (just
> haven't had time to dedicate to investigating it). I'd much rather be
> using that theme than emergence (even though emergence has a matching
> GDM theme. I don't care. I don't like emergence very much :) ).

Do you realise that it's rather easy to create your own splash theme if you 
use genkernel? Even with a matching background picture for grub. If people 
wee interested in it I could post a step-by-step recipe. 

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Uwe Thiem]

On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote:
> Uwe~
> Yes, please share!  I'd be interested to see how this goes together

Will do. Give me a day or two since I have to go through all the steps again 
my self to make sure there won't be typos or such.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Uwe Thiem]

On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote:
> Uwe~
> Yes, please share!  I'd be interested to see how this goes together

Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-)

Here it goes:

1.
Cd to /etc/splash. Create a subdirectory with the name of your theme. That's 
"sysex" in my case because that's the name of my company for which I have 
done it (just to squash any snide remarks before the come my way: It's SysEx 
rather than SySex). Inside that subdirectory, you create another one by the 
name "images".

2.
Use an existing images or create one with your favourite program for that. I 
used an existing one and edited with The Gimp. Actually, you need two 
matching ones, one for the "silent" screen, one for the "verbose" screen. The 
silent one is for the splash screen showing a progress bar and hiding all 
boot-up messages. The verbose one is for hitting "F2" during the boot process 
and for the virtual text consoles. At this stage, you have to decide which 
resolution you can use with your video card. I only use 1024x758, so I skip 
all the other resolutions. If you want all of them (like in emergence you 
have to create them all but you don't need to. Resize the images in The Gimp 
to 1024x768 (or whatever resolution you want and can use) and save them as 
"silent-1024x768.jpg" and "verbose-1024x768.jpg". Copy them over 
to /boot/grub/.

3.
Create a file with this content:

--- start file ---

# Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
#
# 
*****************************************************************************
# Gentoo-Emergence - a sample gensplash theme, bootsplash compatibility mode
# This file should be placed in /etc/splash/emergence/
# 
*****************************************************************************

bgcolor=0

tx=25
ty=28	
tw=979
th=728

text_x=204
text_y=544
text_size=26
text_color=0xeef4ff

pic=/etc/splash/sysex/images/verbose-1024x768.jpg
silentpic=/etc/splash/sysex/images/silent-1024x768.jpg
#pic256=/etc/splash/emergence/images/verbose-1024x768-240.png
#silentpic256=/etc/splash/emergence/images/silent-1024x768-256.png

box silent noover	204 582 820 612 #04045498
box silent inter	204 583 204 611 #ffff00 #ffff00 #526bb0 #526bb0
box silent		204 583 820 611 #ffffff #ffffff #526bb0 #526bb0

box silent	204 582 820 582 #313234
box silent	204 612 820 612 #eef4ff
box silent	204 582 204 612 #313234
box silent	820 582 820 612 #eef4ff

box noover 	20 20 1004 750 #04045498

--- end file ---

Save it to /etc/splash/sysex/1024x768.cfg. Replace any occurrence fo "sysex" 
by the name you call your theme.

4.
Create another matching image with very few colours. Save it as sysex.jpg. If 
you haven't emerge ImageMagick yet do it now. Use "convert -colors 16 -depth 
8 sysex.jpg sysex.xpm". Gnuzip "sysex.xpm" (gzip sysex.xpm) and copy 
"sysex.xpm.gz" to /boot/grub/".

5.
Assuming your /usr/src/linux points to your current kernel sources, do a 
"genkernel --menu-config --gensplash=sysex --gensplash-res=1024x768 all". 
Replace "sysex" by your theme name and "1024x768" by your resolution. When 
the kernel configuration comes up, go to "Device Drivers" --> "Graphics 
Support". Enable "VESA VGA Graphics Support", and in there also "vesafb-tng". 
Also enable "Support for framebuffer splash". Do whatever else configuration 
you need. Let everything build.

6.
This should generate "/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6" 
and /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6", or whatever other kernel 
you are using. If not so, well, you made a mistake somewhere along the line. 
(or I mistyped something ;-)

7.
Create an entry in your /boot/grub/grub.conf like this:

--- start config file ----

default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/sysex.xpm.gz

title= NOS - The Namibian Office Solution by SysEx (Pty) Ltd.
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 udev quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 
video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-16 splash=silent,theme:sysex
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6

--- end config file ---

Obviously, you have to edit everything "sysex" and the harddisk to fit your 
system. Also the kenel version. If your boot partition is on SCSI you 
probably also have to add the option "doscsi" to the kernel options.



Compared to the recommended HOWTO somewhere on Gentoo, this gives you a splash 
screen that kicks in far earlier and does hardware recognition far superior.

Uwe
 

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Holly Bostick]

Uwe Thiem schreef:
> On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote:
> 
>>Uwe~
>>Yes, please share!  I'd be interested to see how this goes together
> 
> 
> Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-)
> <snip>
Thank you very much, Uwe, but I simply cannot get the livecd themes to work.

Adapting your methodology-- because I don't use genkernel-- in
combination with the wiki how-to, I compiled the initramfs into the
kernel, and the kernel does boot with the livecd theme-- but the theme
itself does not appear. This is an improvement, actually, as previously
I would get a kernel panic with the silent theme selected.

Now I just get the same message that I got previously with the verbose
splash:

no 8bb picture selected in config file (twice)

could not find silent image.

Haven't tried verbose yet as I've compiled this kernel 5 times today and
I'd really like to give the new ati drivers a spin for a while.

I have:

- copied most of the (working, afaik) emergence config file to the
livecd config file;

- converted the images to 8bit and saved them with the proper names;

- put the full path to the images in the config file;

- converted the "32-bit" images from .png to .jpg

None of it works. The images cannot be found.

I really don't know what else I can do, nor even what to file for a bug,
as I have no clue what's wrong. I've looked in the forums (nothing), and
the only partially relevant bug on b.g.o was marked invalid, being about
a 'non-standard' resolution (1280x800), whereas my issue is with a
standard resolution (1280x1024).

I really don't want to bother Spock with this, since it seems to be a
problem limited to me-- but honestly, what could it be?

Holly

P.S, oh btw, thanks for the instructions about setting up a GRUB theme
(which I have done, although using different instructions from yours, as
yours didn't mention that the image must be created with certain
constraints), but what I had said was that I needed a matching *GDM*
theme :) . Not that it matters, since I have no splash to tie the GRUB
theme to any future matching GDM theme anyway....

H.

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Nagatoro]

Holly Bostick wrote:
> 
> None of it works. The images cannot be found.

A shoot in the dark but I  saw something regarding a default sym link in 
/etc/splash. If you have that try and delete it (think it was on the 
wiki page regading making your own splash theme)

/
HTH
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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Uwe Thiem]

On 18 August 2005 22:21, Holly Bostick wrote:

> Now I just get the same message that I got previously with the verbose
> splash:
>
> no 8bb picture selected in config file (twice)
>
> could not find silent image.
>
> Haven't tried verbose yet as I've compiled this kernel 5 times today and
> I'd really like to give the new ati drivers a spin for a while.
>
> I have:
>
> - copied most of the (working, afaik) emergence config file to the
> livecd config file;
>
> - converted the images to 8bit and saved them with the proper names;
>
> - put the full path to the images in the config file;
>
> - converted the "32-bit" images from .png to .jpg
>
> None of it works. The images cannot be found.

Holly, I don't have that livecd theme. Can you tar /etc/splash and send it to 
me off the list? Maybe I can find out what's wrong with it.


> P.S, oh btw, thanks for the instructions about setting up a GRUB theme
> (which I have done, although using different instructions from yours, as
> yours didn't mention that the image must be created with certain
> constraints), but what I had said was that I needed a matching *GDM*
> theme :) . Not that it matters, since I have no splash to tie the GRUB
> theme to any future matching GDM theme anyway....

I can't help here. I use KDM. ;-)

Uwe

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RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[John Dangler]

Holly~
Maybe you can get this to work with this page...
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Option_1:_Compiling_The_initramfs_Imag
e_Directly_Into_The_Kernel

There's a section somewhere in here that talks about that exact error.

John D

-----Original Message-----
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:motub@planet.nl] 
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:21 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

Uwe Thiem schreef:
> On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote:
> 
>>Uwe~
>>Yes, please share!  I'd be interested to see how this goes together
> 
> 
> Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-)
> <snip>
Thank you very much, Uwe, but I simply cannot get the livecd themes to work.

Adapting your methodology-- because I don't use genkernel-- in
combination with the wiki how-to, I compiled the initramfs into the
kernel, and the kernel does boot with the livecd theme-- but the theme
itself does not appear. This is an improvement, actually, as previously
I would get a kernel panic with the silent theme selected.

Now I just get the same message that I got previously with the verbose
splash:

no 8bb picture selected in config file (twice)

could not find silent image.

Haven't tried verbose yet as I've compiled this kernel 5 times today and
I'd really like to give the new ati drivers a spin for a while.

I have:

- copied most of the (working, afaik) emergence config file to the
livecd config file;

- converted the images to 8bit and saved them with the proper names;

- put the full path to the images in the config file;

- converted the "32-bit" images from .png to .jpg

None of it works. The images cannot be found.

I really don't know what else I can do, nor even what to file for a bug,
as I have no clue what's wrong. I've looked in the forums (nothing), and
the only partially relevant bug on b.g.o was marked invalid, being about
a 'non-standard' resolution (1280x800), whereas my issue is with a
standard resolution (1280x1024).

I really don't want to bother Spock with this, since it seems to be a
problem limited to me-- but honestly, what could it be?

Holly

P.S, oh btw, thanks for the instructions about setting up a GRUB theme
(which I have done, although using different instructions from yours, as
yours didn't mention that the image must be created with certain
constraints), but what I had said was that I needed a matching *GDM*
theme :) . Not that it matters, since I have no splash to tie the GRUB
theme to any future matching GDM theme anyway....

H.

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Holly Bostick]

John Dangler schreef:
> Holly~
> Maybe you can get this to work with this page...
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Option_1:_Compiling_The_initramfs_Imag
> e_Directly_Into_The_Kernel
> 
> There's a section somewhere in here that talks about that exact error.
> 
> John D
> 

Thank you, John-- that is what I've been doing (which is a change from
my original behaviour, which was to compile a separate initrd). Doing so
did improve the situation in that using the livecd theme now allows the
computer to boot (whereas the initrd using the silent splash would
result in a kernel panic and halt).

But I still get the message that 'no 8bpp pics are specified in the
theme file' (twice) and then the message that the silent or verbose
(whichever I've specified) image cannot be found, after which the system
continues to boot. The console images are said to be being set (no
message that they cannot be found), but (of course) do not appear.

I even uninstalled the theme, deleted the folder in /etc/splash and
reinstalled (which surprisingly gave me a new tarball), but there was no
change.

I haven't yet rebuilt the kernel with the emergence theme instead to see
if there's any difference, but that's next on the list, along with Uwe's
suggestion to tar up /etc/splash and let him have a look at it.

I'd think it's a script problem, but many (or even most) people have no
problem with this theme, so I'd think it's something on my system, but I
can't imagine what would be so unique to my system that this problem
would show only for me.... wait a minute.

I did notice one thing, however-- or rather two things that are related
(so add up to one thing).

Maybe the problem is /lib/splash/cache? This is mounted as a tmpfs, but
not by /etc/fstab, and I can't get rid of it (unmount it). I think it's
mounted because I was instructed to --bind it at some point in the very
distant past, and while I noticed that it was mounted for 'no reason'
(shouldn't it unmount when the system has finished booting, after all?),
it gave no attributable problems (in terms of the system as a whole).

But as an experiment during this effort to solve the stupid problem with
the livecd theme (I hope you all see why I haven't attempted to solve it
up to now; this is a lot of work for a really dumb issue), I tried
setting the theme to 1024x768 instead of my traditional 1280x1024 (under
the theory that maybe 1280x1024 was also somehow non-standard, like the
1280x800 the forums poster was using, but everything should support
1024x768). What happened was no change, but the message specifically
said something about looking for 1280x1024.cfg... which wasn't right.

So maybe some bad files are being cached somewhere, and that's why all
of my changes have been ignored?

How do I get rid of cachedir on /lib/splash/cache type tmpfs (rw)? Maybe
then I won't have to clog up Uwe's email with a tar file (that I'd have
to look up the commands to create anyway ;) ).

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Nagatoro]

Holly Bostick wrote:
> 1024x768). What happened was no change, but the message specifically
> said something about looking for 1280x1024.cfg... which wasn't right.

Sound like the problem I'm having now... But mine wants a 800x600 one. 
The strange thing is that I've _never_ used that reslolution.

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RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[John Dangler]

Holly~
Sorry for the delay.  I'm working on client stuff at the same time as trying
to get my Gentoo box up and going...

I tried the different resolutions as well, with the same results.  I'm also
fighting alsa right now, too (see my other post - alsa config) which I think
I goofed up myself!

I put in a call to a friend of mine to see if he can help with the splash
bits - so maybe there's hope yet.  If you haven't got it solved, I'll post
here when I get some more information.

as to the mount problem, if it's not in fstab, what's in your mtab file?

John D

-----Original Message-----
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:motub@planet.nl] 
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 7:46 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

John Dangler schreef:
> Holly~
> Maybe you can get this to work with this page...
>
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Option_1:_Compiling_The_initramfs_Imag
> e_Directly_Into_The_Kernel
> 
> There's a section somewhere in here that talks about that exact error.
> 
> John D
> 

Thank you, John-- that is what I've been doing (which is a change from
my original behaviour, which was to compile a separate initrd). Doing so
did improve the situation in that using the livecd theme now allows the
computer to boot (whereas the initrd using the silent splash would
result in a kernel panic and halt).

But I still get the message that 'no 8bpp pics are specified in the
theme file' (twice) and then the message that the silent or verbose
(whichever I've specified) image cannot be found, after which the system
continues to boot. The console images are said to be being set (no
message that they cannot be found), but (of course) do not appear.

I even uninstalled the theme, deleted the folder in /etc/splash and
reinstalled (which surprisingly gave me a new tarball), but there was no
change.

I haven't yet rebuilt the kernel with the emergence theme instead to see
if there's any difference, but that's next on the list, along with Uwe's
suggestion to tar up /etc/splash and let him have a look at it.

I'd think it's a script problem, but many (or even most) people have no
problem with this theme, so I'd think it's something on my system, but I
can't imagine what would be so unique to my system that this problem
would show only for me.... wait a minute.

I did notice one thing, however-- or rather two things that are related
(so add up to one thing).

Maybe the problem is /lib/splash/cache? This is mounted as a tmpfs, but
not by /etc/fstab, and I can't get rid of it (unmount it). I think it's
mounted because I was instructed to --bind it at some point in the very
distant past, and while I noticed that it was mounted for 'no reason'
(shouldn't it unmount when the system has finished booting, after all?),
it gave no attributable problems (in terms of the system as a whole).

But as an experiment during this effort to solve the stupid problem with
the livecd theme (I hope you all see why I haven't attempted to solve it
up to now; this is a lot of work for a really dumb issue), I tried
setting the theme to 1024x768 instead of my traditional 1280x1024 (under
the theory that maybe 1280x1024 was also somehow non-standard, like the
1280x800 the forums poster was using, but everything should support
1024x768). What happened was no change, but the message specifically
said something about looking for 1280x1024.cfg... which wasn't right.

So maybe some bad files are being cached somewhere, and that's why all
of my changes have been ignored?

How do I get rid of cachedir on /lib/splash/cache type tmpfs (rw)? Maybe
then I won't have to clog up Uwe's email with a tar file (that I'd have
to look up the commands to create anyway ;) ).

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Holly Bostick]

John Dangler schreef:

> 
> as to the mount problem, if it's not in fstab, what's in your mtab file?
> 

Well, it's in my mtab, but that doesn't tell me how it got mounted...
does it?

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Holly Bostick]

> John Dangler schreef:
> 
>>Holly~
>>Maybe you can get this to work with this page...
>>
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Option_1:_Compiling_The_initramfs_Imag
> 
>>e_Directly_Into_The_Kernel
>>
>>There's a section somewhere in here that talks about that exact error.
>>
>>John D
>>
> 
> 
> Thank you, John-- that is what I've been doing (which is a change from
> my original behaviour, which was to compile a separate initrd). Doing so
> did improve the situation in that using the livecd theme now allows the
> computer to boot (whereas the initrd using the silent splash would
> result in a kernel panic and halt).
> 
> But I still get the message that 'no 8bpp pics are specified in the
> theme file' (twice) and then the message that the silent or verbose
> (whichever I've specified) image cannot be found, after which the system
> continues to boot. The console images are said to be being set (no
> message that they cannot be found), but (of course) do not appear.
> 

OK, more information, maybe... I think I might have found what's not
working (but I don't know why its not working).

I went back through the various links that explain how to do this, and
found the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter from 18 April 2005
( http://lwn.net/Articles/132803/ ).

Now the Tips and Tricks section, titled "Bootup with the Gentoo 2005.0
logo" says (and I quote):

Code Listing 5.3:                                                       |
|Configure the                                                            |
bootloader-----------------------------------------------------------------
--------
|                                                                         |
|# nano -w /boot/grub/menu.lst                                            |
|First change your kernel-boot-line to something like this (depends on    |
|your used framebuffer and further kernel-parameters):                    |
|kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.11-r6 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:1024x768-32@72 |
|  splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1              |
===>|You must use more than 8bpp (in this example it is 32,
      ===>|
===>|specified by 1024x768-32@72).

This is supported by the fact that neither the 2005.0 or 2005.1 themes
specify an 8bpp picture in their config files, and in fact do not even
contain 8bpp files, afaics

Now, splash_geninitfs does allow you to specify --no8bpp (which didn't
work for me either), but from the GWN, that is not necessary anyway:

| Code Listing 5.2:                                                       |
|Creation of an initrd with the                                           |
2005.0-splash--------------------------------------------------------------
-----------
|                                                                         |
|Be sure that /boot is mounted before you call the command                |
|# splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/splash-livecd-2005.0-1024x768 \        |
|  -r 1024x768 livecd-2005.0                                              |

As you see, --no8bpp is not specified, which you'd think meant that it's
not needed (since the author knows that the theme doesn't contain a
specification for 8bpp, and this instruction comes before the other one
that deals with 8bpp at all).

So why, when my grub.conf says

 kernel /vmlinuz ro quiet root=/dev/hda5
video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-32@60
splash=verbose,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1

clearly specifying more than 8bpp as instructed, is the splash failing
to load because no 8bpp picture is specified in the theme file (which if
it had to be specified in the theme file, surely it would have been, but
it's not, so presumably it doesn't have to be), and therefore fails to
find the silent or verbose image?

Logically, this must mean that my console is 8bpp??? That's the only
reason that it would be looking for the 8bpp picture. Why is my console
8bpp, when the message is being displayed on a 1280x1024 framebuffer
meaning that the framebuffer is loaded.... oh, shit. Shit, shit,
shit.... Sorry.

I think I got it.

I have vesafb-tng specified in the kernel as so:

1280x1024@60

but it should be

1280x1024-32@60, shouldn't it? Or else the stupid framebuffer defaults
to 8bpp or something, doesn't it?

Just changed my kernel config, recompiling. I'll let you know how it goes.

That really might be it. Damn, I feel stupid, but it's not like any of
these bloody instructions remind you to set the %$#^&*$% bit depth in
your kernel vesafb-tng setting, either.

Brb,
Holy




I feel that "we" are close to a solution here (I think the splash will
work perfectly once it stops looking for an 8bpp picture; I also think
that's why emergence works, because it has one already), but I am over
my head here.

Please help :) .

Holly

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Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[Holly Bostick]

Holly Bostick schreef:
> So why, when my grub.conf says
> 
>  kernel /vmlinuz ro quiet root=/dev/hda5
> video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-32@60
> splash=verbose,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
> 
> clearly specifying more than 8bpp as instructed, is the splash failing
> to load because no 8bpp picture is specified in the theme file (which if
> it had to be specified in the theme file, surely it would have been, but
> it's not, so presumably it doesn't have to be), and therefore fails to
> find the silent or verbose image?
> 
> Logically, this must mean that my console is 8bpp??? That's the only
> reason that it would be looking for the 8bpp picture. Why is my console
> 8bpp, when the message is being displayed on a 1280x1024 framebuffer
> meaning that the framebuffer is loaded.... oh, shit. Shit, shit,
> shit.... Sorry.
> 
> I think I got it.
> 
> I have vesafb-tng specified in the kernel as so:
> 
> 1280x1024@60
> 
> but it should be
> 
> 1280x1024-32@60, shouldn't it? Or else the stupid framebuffer defaults
> to 8bpp or something, doesn't it?
> 
> Just changed my kernel config, recompiling. I'll let you know how it goes.
> 
> That really might be it. Damn, I feel stupid, but it's not like any of
> these bloody instructions remind you to set the %$#^&*$% bit depth in
> your kernel vesafb-tng setting, either.

Yes, that was it. The splash now works. So for all of you following this
thread, first check that your preferred bit depth is specified in the
vesafb-tng default setting in the kernel, and if it is not, specify it.

Thank you all very much for all your help; Uwe, won't be needing to send
that tar.gz to you after all, but thanks for the offer.

See you all later; I'm off to figure out how to make a matching GDM
theme, and get rid of that smearing in the GRUB theme. After which, I'll
maybe update the Wiki, if somebody doesn't do it first.

Toodle-oo,
Holly
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