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On Thursday 23 June 2011 17:28:15 Dale did opine thusly: |
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> John wrote: |
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> > Since upgrading my kernel to .39 my beloved splash screen has |
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> > stopped working. I have followed guidelines in wiki that |
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> > someone has very kindly written. Reverting back to older kernel |
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> > the splash screen works as expected. I've tried this on 2 |
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> > machines. I have seen somewhere that a patch is added to kernel |
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> > to help this. Is this included in .39? |
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> > I believe the issue maybe due to /sbin/fbcondecor_helper in |
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> > initrd but not really too sure. My debugging skills are lacking |
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> > somewhat. |
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> > Has anyone else experienced this and can anyone offer an |
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> > alternative method for producing splash. |
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> > I am currently using vesafb and splash_geninitramfs to create |
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> > splash screens? |
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> I have noticed that people seem to have various issues with .39. |
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> Maybe roll back to a older kernel and give it a few versions to get |
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> some fixes in. I had X issues, someone else had some network issue |
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> and someone else has some other odd issue. I think .39 is |
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> currently a lemon. |
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> If you can make it with the old .38 version, I would. At least for |
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> a little bit anyway. |
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.39 screwed up my nouveau frame buffer, took a lot of frantic hit and |
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miss with graphics options to get it back. |
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.38 was rock-solid |
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I wonder what 3.0 will be like |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |