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On Saturday 15 April 2006 07:55 pm, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 4/15/06, Rohit and Bhavana <bhavhit@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > Is there anyone on the list who has the following configured on their |
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> > workstations? |
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> > |
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> > * bootsplash giving them a nice picture at the startup [ in runlevel |
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> > boot] |
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I do that on my laptop. IBM X40 Type 2386-1CU with some weird Intel Extreme |
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Graphics II chip I've never previously heard of and honestly don't want to |
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see again (it really sucks - the X40's wonderfully light though, I'd |
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reccommend it any day! Works perfectly with Linux, too!) |
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> > * bootsplash giving them a nice picture later [ in runlevel default] |
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You mean like the livecd-2006.0 theme? Where it has pretty framebuffer |
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graphics and puts console at 1024x768 (a must-have, IMHO) but then has a |
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picturized boot process? Yeah, I do that. Then by whacking F2 I can go back |
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to the verbose process but still with the pretty graphics. |
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The info you need is in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash (as reccommended |
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to me by Bo Andresen). |
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> > * Then X11 starting on their nvidia card configured with xf86 or |
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> > xorg with X working in default runlevel |
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On my server I'm working to get spash working with an nVidia card. The |
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problems aren't from the nVidia card, however, but rather from Genkernel, |
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which I find totally inferior to make in every way (why do I need to |
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recompile the whole kernel every time? I know, I've been spoiled by only |
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compiling what's changed). |
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> > * Switching back to consol with control-alt-F[n] and being able to |
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> > work without locking up your box - and without framebuffer |
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> > corruption. |
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Never had a problem here. When I kill X11 and KDM for a console login, it |
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goes back to the beautified console, but sacrificing no functionality that I |
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know of. |
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> I have all of this working on my Dell e1705 laptop. Significant details: |
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> 2.6.15-suspend2-r8 |
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> [ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.8756 0 kB |
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> [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r3 USE="dri -debug -ipv6 |
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> -minimal -xprint" 0 kB |
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> Also I use the vesafb-tng framebuffer driver. |
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> > If yes, then if you know anyone has everything working, I would be |
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> > obliged to note the version numbers etc and any pointers. |
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> > - not being clear about difference between gensplash and bootsplash |
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> > [they seem to serve the same purpose] which one should I use on my |
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> > system. Should I emerge one, or both or one of them and themes for both? |
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I used splashutils with great success. I can't comment about any others |
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though - I've never tried them. |
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> I would suggest not dealing with bootsplash issues at this point, and |
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> work on getting a stable framebuffer working. Once you have that, the |
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> bootsplash side of things is pretty straight-forward. |
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I'd reccommend that Wiki. I walked through it and came out alive, and with |
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linux looking artful enough to shut up all the Windoze zealots that I am |
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burdened to come into contact with. |
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