I have had problems getting this to work also, but was able to get it
working finally
after being directed to the authors website and following his instructions.
What I
did was get a 2.6.24 kernel working for me fully with no errors then
proceded to follow
spock's instructions to get uvesafb working properly on both my desktop and
laptop.
Hope this gives you what you need to get it working.

Matt

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Daniel Pielmeier <
daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Mick schrieb:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and
> thought
> > of using it on a box of mine.  However, amidst other weird and wonderful
> > errors that the new kernel gives me on this box, I have completely
> failed to
> > get uvesafb to work.
> >
> > When it boots up it comes up with these errors:
> > =====================================================
> > * Setting framebuffer console images
> > Can't open cfg file //etc/splash/emergence/640x480.cfg
> > No 8bpp silent picture specified in the theme
> > No 8bpp verbose picture specified in the theme
> > * Failed to set background image on tty1
> > =====================================================
> >
> > Meanwhile the penguins and fonts on the boot console are shown in some
> > impossibly large size.  My kernel line is:
> >
> > kernel /kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/sda3 \
> > video=uvesafb:1280x1024-32@60,ywrap,mtrr:4, \
> > splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
> > initrd /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1280x1024
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Just a shot in the dark are you using any kind of tv-out?
>
> I had this problem with tv-out. I specified a resolution of 1280x1024.
> When I connect my tv to my box the maximal resolution possible is
> 1024x768 because the tv-encoder does not offer higher resolutions. So
> instead of switching to the next greatest resolution of 1024x768 the
> uvesafb driver switches to smallest resolution of 640x480. This
> resolution is not available in the emergence theme thus the splash fails!
>
> If you have a problem like this there are existing patches whto the
> kernel which are fixing this issue!
>
> What does "cat /sys/devices/platform/uvesafb.0/vbe_modes" say?
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
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