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On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 07:01 +0000, Gareth McClean wrote: |
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> I'm stuck and I don't see what I am doing wrong. |
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> I want a splash screen, so I emerged splash and the 'gentoo' theme. I configured a kernel and used genkernel to perform the build for me. |
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> I triple checked the kernel has the right framebuffer options, initrd contains the requested theme and I am passing the parameters suggested by genkernel using grub.conf. Yet all that happens is the display changes to a higher resolution mode, but no logo, just normal boot messages. |
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> A livecd does show a boot logo, so I know vesa modes are supported by the h/w platform. |
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> Now I have read that two files 'splash_helper' and 'fbcondecor_helper' maybe required in /sbin on the target system - can any one confirm if this is true? |
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> If so I have another problem since 'splash_helper' does not exist anywhere on my build system (only a splash_functions). This is why I just did not tried copying the files. |
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> Anyone have any thoughts? |
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> G. |
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> PS, everything is built from the current portage tree as of about two days ago. |
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Please don't hijack other peoples threads for reporting errors about |
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what appears has nothing to do with embedded. |
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