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> If i understood well F2 is managed from splash_util not splash_helper. |
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> Also, my config isn't really gentoo compliant (i don't use genkernel) |
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> and i would avoid the need of splash_util.static. I'm loading |
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> splash_helper from bzImage via initramfs archive to do the job. At this |
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> stage the alt+F1 key gives me the ability to switch to the verbose mode, |
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> have a look at the display to see what is going on (i'm kind of curious |
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> :) and switch back to the silent mode like i'm able with splash_util. |
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> The problem is, i cannot switch back to the silent mode until |
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> splash_util is loaded. I could say, the key Alt+F1 is not |
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> "bidirectional", in other words the display cannot go back to the |
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> precedent mode. |
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Alt+F1 was never meant to be bidirectional -- it's the usual key |
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combination to switch to tty1 (Alt+F2 to tty2, Alt+F3 to tty3 etc). |
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Switching back to verbose during early userspace is currently |
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unsupported. If you need it really badly, let me know and I'll see |
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whether I can hack a simple solution for it. |
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> The second issue is, i'm no more able to see the purple vertical bar at |
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> the right of the screen during the verbose mode. The screen only looks |
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> like as an usual tty. I'm quite sure, it was possible in the past. |
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Is the verbose mode activated at a later time? Are you sure you have |
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compiled splashutils with fbsplash-support enabled? |
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> PS: I have tried splashutils 1.4 but it doesn't work for me. The screen |
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> stays black... until i press alt+f1 or F2. At first, i thought that |
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> could be the radeonfb driver, but it seems not. I didn't take too much |
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> time to look after it and i switched back to splashutils 1.3.1 for the |
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> moment. |
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That could be either a bug in splashutils or a problem with how you're |
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building your initramfs image. Could you provide some more details about |
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how it is created? |
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Best regards. |
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Michal Januszewski JID: spock@×××××××××.org |
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Gentoo Linux Developer http://people.gentoo.org/spock |