Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-catalyst] gensplash
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:18:22
Message-Id: 1126207020.29257.1.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-catalyst] gensplash by "Kessler
1 On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:59 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
2 > Ok I got past the error by making sure CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y in my kernel
3 > config. Everything got put where it should be. I did notice a warning
4 > that said I might have to pass this to the kernel:
5
6 Actually, you do *not* want VESA_TNG, but the *normal* vesafb,
7 otherwise, you need to use video= rather than vga=, and catalyst does
8 *not* do this for you automatically.
9
10 > vga=791 splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.1 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet
11
12 Catalyst does this automatically. We do not use VESAFB-tng, because it
13 is not cross-architecture compatible.
14
15 > Sure enough when I booted the latest build I got the message about
16 > passing a bad number again. Should I be passing this like to the kernel
17 > in the stage2 spec, and if so under livecd/bootargs?
18
19 Nope.
20
21 --
22 Chris Gianelloni
23 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
24 Games - Developer
25 Gentoo Linux

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