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 4.43) id 1Duyl7-0007jL-3m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:32:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6JKVIDp017379; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:31:18 GMT Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6JKQe5B010579 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:26:41 GMT Received: (qmail 4022 invoked by uid 417); 19 Jul 2005 20:27:42 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 20:27:42 -0000 Received: from localhost ([81.246.229.195]) (AUTH: LOGIN charlyghislain@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:27:41 -0600 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problems References: <1121784715.8642.4.camel@Angelina.www.Angelina.org> <42DD49F0.5060805@asmallpond.org> <1121803206.8610.2.camel@Angelina.www.Angelina.org> <42DD5EB6.9020402@asmallpond.org> Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:27:42 +0200 From: "charly ghislain" 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 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <42DD5EB6.9020402@asmallpond.org> User-Agent: Opera M2/8.0 (Linux, build 1095) X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to 7bit by courier 0.38 X-Archives-Salt: ab080bc6-b0a7-4a10-b7a5-300cb7f17c4a X-Archives-Hash: f682da6fbadb6caf4a29ca23a21642d3 On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:12:38 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > LostSon wrote: > >> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 20:44 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: >> >>> LostSon wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hello I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have >>>> followed the >>>> directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb >>>> with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this >>>> title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash >>>> root (hd0,0) >>>> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new25 root=/dev/hda3 >>>> video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768@70 spla$ >>>> initrd (hd0,0)/fbsplash-gentoo-1024x768 >>>> make sure nano didnt cut your kernel line. The video= option should be on the same line than the kernel one. It should look like: title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new25 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768@70 splash=... #(one line) initrd (hd0,0)/fbsplash-gentoo-1024x768 This is very annoying, but while editing a line larger than the console, nano cut it into two lines :( You have to check every time, go to the end of the first part of the cuted line and press delete charly >>>> >>> Um, is fbsplash-gentoo-1024x768 in the /boot directory? Is your root >>> filesystem /dev/hda1? >>> >>> If the answer to both is yes, then the initrd line should say: >>> >>> initrd (hd0,0)/boot/fbsplash-gentoo-1024x768 >>> >>> -Richard >>> >>> >>> >> >> OK I have tried this as well and still no luck i just keep getting an >> error about Cant open config file in /etc/splash/emergence or /gentoo >> depending o which splash i use. There is more stuff about /dev/fb0 >> or /dev/fd0 i cant seem to find these messages in any of my log files >> though. > > Does your kernel configuration include both RAM disk and Initial RAM > disk support (under Device Drivers->Block Devices)? Both are required > for loading the initramfs through the initrd memory protocol. > > -Richard > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list