From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QZsTD-0000oh-5Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:33:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E059E055E; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:28:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55317E055E for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyf40 with SMTP id 40so2628695iyf.40 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:28:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=rhxGQwkwNgJJQVDgxSQyj/V2gOoc9gUlMHGTySxIqYg=; b=vxUPPBK2MGSET3BFJYbSOiKTFPxQqLfdg6TdY4NZBcIzKvb77Yd8/4ShOf4vF/Xnzp 64y4ae4l9apv1zEVbnwLdDrcEA1aKPZNl6S0U+KH/S+H7826/xQY+YYArXsyqd1iwaYv nuCZx3Q19YfCutozcSRbCVZfurvPJKG/3B10g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=H40xNj5lKTkyLAvJfyhK/e8Nrs23UbhNFt/zl8jNM0Zta3EoKrrjug1M9WQmCK/Lz0 KVJvLIUQfU4Kh9pdxvU6UCEC3854LcOET/pZ+ibN+Qj0C+uGCQq3q/z1lSRfwgMyJkKG OpOOwo/y4a+QvCYrIcm8x4itetcxcTobREFwM= Received: by 10.42.144.195 with SMTP id c3mr272183icv.9.1308868098273; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-120-31.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.120.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hw7sm1985276icc.3.2011.06.23.15.28.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:28:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E03BDFF.90801@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:28:15 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110606 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fbsplash References: <20110623221943.555c4374@november> In-Reply-To: <20110623221943.555c4374@november> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0c731a813e5f09dba2e4793bd03b3024 John wrote: > Since upgrading my kernel to .39 my beloved splash screen has stopped > working. I have followed guidelines in wiki that someone has very kindly > written. Reverting back to older kernel the splash screen works as > expected. I've tried this on 2 machines. I have seen somewhere that a > patch is added to kernel to help this. Is this included in .39? > > I believe the issue maybe due to /sbin/fbcondecor_helper in initrd but > not really too sure. My debugging skills are lacking somewhat. > > Has anyone else experienced this and can anyone offer an alternative > method for producing splash. > > I am currently using vesafb and splash_geninitramfs to create splash > screens? > > I have noticed that people seem to have various issues with .39. Maybe roll back to a older kernel and give it a few versions to get some fixes in. I had X issues, someone else had some network issue and someone else has some other odd issue. I think .39 is currently a lemon. If you can make it with the old .38 version, I would. At least for a little bit anyway. Dale :-) :-)