[gentoo-user] fbsplash and console issues after udev

[Daevid Vincent]

I have updated to udev and got most things kinda working (as is the case of
any linux system where it's never 100%)...

The loading screen with the progress bar works fine. If I hit F2 to see the
stuff going on, here's where it has issues..

There is no background image (as there used to be prior to udev). 

I've run this command:
splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200 -r 1600x1200
emergence

And I have this file:
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1475639 Dec  4 21:37 fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200

My grub.conf has:
title Gentoo Linux vmlinuz (2.6.14r2) [resume framebuffer splash 1600]
        root=(hd0,0)
        kernel=(hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda3
video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1600x1200-16@60 splash=silent,theme:emergence,tty:12
quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 hdb=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 pmdisk=/dev/hda6
netdev=5,0xec80,eth0
        initrd (hd0,0)/boot/fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200

I do get a hi-res screen (like framebuffer is working it seems), however I
have a 1" margin on the right and bottom of my LCD display. It's like the
screen is 1600x1200, but the console/text is not filling it up. HOWEVER, the
loading/progress screen DOES fill it up.

To further confuse me, this margin only happens on console 1. The other
consoles all use the full width and height as they should. I notice if I hit
return at the login prompt on console 1, that I see the text flash in the
bottom 1" margin, and then appear up above the margin.

In my kernel, I have VESA-TNG compiled in kernel, but if i use
video=vesafb-tng it doesn't work at all (I only get the standard 640x480),
yet video=vesafb does "work" in that I am a higher resolution?!

Restarting /etc/init.d/consolefont or bootsplash doesn't seem to do
anything.

I do see this error flash by after pressing F2:

Booting 'Gentoo Linux vmlinuz (2.6.14r2) [resume framebuffer splash 1600]'

root=(hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel=(hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda3
video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1600x1200
-16@60 splash=silent,theme:emergence,tty:12 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
hdb=ide-scs
i resume=/dev/hda6 pmdisk=/dev/hda6 netdev=5,0xec80,eth0
   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00, size=0x20eacb]
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200
   [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fe87000, 0x16843c bytes]

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
FBIOSPLASH_SETPIC failed, error code 515.
Hint: are you calling 'setpic' for the current virtual console?
INIT: version 2.86 booting

This post was the only google I could find with that error in it.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-351048-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-2
5.html
I tried these things and still no worky


So to summarize my actual questions:

[1] how do I get rid of the margin on console 1?
[2] how do I get a background image to show on console 1 (only)?


Thanks,

Daevid.
"You had me at EHLO" --E.Webb (10.04.05) 

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