Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No progress indicator in bootsplash

[Sebastian Günther]

* Nikos Chantziaras (realnc@×××××.de) [16.07.08 17:55]:
> Sebastian Günther wrote:
>> * Nikos Chantziaras (realnc@×××××.de) [16.07.08 15:02]:
>
> Thanks for helping in tracking down this issue.  Here's /etc/conf.d/splash:
>
> SPLASH_VERBOSE_ON_ERRORS="no"
try turning this to yes, maybe there are some error messages that are 
missed.

> SPLASH_EFFECTS="fadein,fadeout"
> SPLASH_TEXTBOX="no"
> SPLASH_AUTOVERBOSE="0"
>
Same with me.

> In /etc/conf.d/fbcondecor everything is commented out.
>
>
>> and what
>> # ls -l /etc/splash
>
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 2008-07-14 16:06 emergence
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 2008-07-14 16:06 gentoo
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root  4096 2008-07-15 10:52 livecd-2007.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66372 2008-07-14 16:06 luxisri.ttf
>

Seems OK.
>
>> and
>> # eselect rc list |grep fbcondecor
>
> fbcondecor                boot
>
> (Note that I had to rc-update fbcondecor into boot by hand.  The ebuild did
> not do this and also didn't mention the existence of the script at all.
> The only thing mentioned is there was a change from some older splash
> version which doesn't say much for 1st time users like me.)
>

I have it in boot and default runlevel. Try that.


> Meanwhile I switched from uvesafb to the old vesafb to see if it has
> something to do with it.  Same result.  I also re-emerged klibc and
> splashutils.  No go.
>
As I assume you have v86d installed. Try the fbcondecor in default 
runlevel. 

Sebastian

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