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 4.54) id 1FUtNR-0001Dx-Td for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:36:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k3FMaCaM016681; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:36:12 GMT Received: from mk-ironport-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-ironport-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3FMW8iZ028170 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:32:09 GMT Received: from 88-104-91-230.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (HELO mk-smarthost-9.mail.uk.tiscali.com) ([88.104.91.230]) by mk-ironport-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com with ESMTP; 15 Apr 2006 23:32:08 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AesRAPwMQUSIXgIdDQ Received: from 88-104-91-230.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com ([88.104.91.230]:32800) by mk-smarthost-9.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1FUtFH-000Fc4-RJ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:27:59 +0100 Message-ID: <44418272.9030208@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:32:02 +0100 From: Rohit and Bhavana User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060222 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] X11 + framebuffer - does it work? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 86611eaf-2f2e-436e-b29b-0b1b7fdf5aa5 X-Archives-Hash: 09466ff9d3db7b5dfa962d509ba34b44 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] * bootsplash giving them a nice picture later [ in runlevel default] * Then X11 starting on their nvidia card configured with xf86 or xorg with X working in default runlevel * Switching back to consol with control-alt-F[n] and being able to work without locking up your box - and without framebuffer corruption. What I want to do is have my virtual consoles [alt-F1 through to alt-FN except for F7 of course] having individual pretty images on each of them, and X windows working at the same time. Is it even possible? If yes, then if you know anyone has everything working, I would be obliged to note the version numbers etc and any pointers. I have looked at the net [I must admit, not in the last two weeks though] and was baffled by the following. - framebuffer corruption just wouldn't go away. - machine lockups - many a times, no errors but the framebuffer image still wouldn't show up at the startup - 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? [You can tell how confused I am]. I know this is long - so if you can take some patient time out for me, I would be very grateful. Else I could use any pointers/links given by you on my own time. Time to rebuild my box is close anyway - need to repartition whole thing to make more room for Oracle/Gentoo and MySQL/Gentoo. Best regards, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list