Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

[Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>]

Nagatoro schreef:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got another "interesting" problem with the splash. It seems like
> no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600
> resolution.
> 
> At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play
> nicely):
> ---
> can't open config file /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/800x600.cfg
> No 8bpp verbose pic found...
> Failed to get ...
> ---
> 
Your problem seems to be the same one I had.
> 
> dmesg:
> ---

> CONFIG_FB_VESA_DEFAULT_MODE="1280x1024@60"

> 
> Does anyone have an idea as to what is wrong here? It used to work (some
> emerge -uDNav world 's ago...).

Yes... you see your kernel config for the default mode? It does not
specify a bit depth. Neither did mine. Change the setting in the kernel to

1280x1024-32@60

(or whatever your preferred resolution is, thereby specifying a bit
depth to the kernel config)

recompile the kernel, and try again, using the setting you want in
grub.conf, and it should work. At least, that's what fixed it for me.

This is not the way it's *supposed* to work-- the setting in the kernel
is supposed to be overridden by the setting in grub.conf. And for most
everybody, it seems to work that way. But in my experience, the setting
in grub.conf is ignored if the kernel config doesn't conform to it-- if
I haven't set a bit depth in the kernel, the kernel framebuffer settings
default to 8bpp, which the livecd theme does not support, causing the
livecd themes to fail (because the theme looks for 8bpp pix instead of
overriding the fallback to what I specified in grub.conf). Emergence
does support 8bpp, so that would work, but that's not what we're trying
to do.

It seems to be a bug, but if you could confirm that 'fixing' your kernel
setting fixes the problem for you, then that would help confirm that it
is a bug (as well as fixing your problem), although it seems to not
affect everyone for some reason (yet to be determined).

Holly


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