Re: [gentoo-user] X11 + framebuffer - does it work?

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 4/15/06, Rohit and Bhavana <bhavhit@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

I have all of this working on my Dell e1705 laptop.  Significant details:

2.6.15-suspend2-r8
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756  0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r3  USE="dri -debug -ipv6
-minimal -xprint" 0 kB

Also I use the vesafb-tng framebuffer driver.

> If yes, then if you know anyone has everything working, I would be
> obliged to note the version numbers etc and any pointers.

> - 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?

I would suggest not dealing with bootsplash issues at this point, and
work on getting a stable framebuffer working.  Once you have that, the
bootsplash side of things is pretty straight-forward.

-Richard

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