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Grimaldy Soto wrote: |
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> Good Day. |
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> Guys i wanna configure so i can see a beautiful background when my |
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> machine is upload it.. |
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> I'm using the gensplash in 5 easy steps to do this, but there are |
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> something that i wanna know.. |
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> For example i'm using the 2.6.13-r6 Sources Kernel , i remembered that |
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> i active the framebuffer support, so i suppossed that i don't need to |
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> reconfigure and compile the kernel again.. |
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It depends. If you just want a nice splash screen while the init |
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scripts are running, you should not need to recompile, as long as you |
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have framebuffer console support enabled. In this case, you can add |
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"quiet" to your kernel command line options to supress the kernel |
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messages, so you have a couple of seconds to look at "Starting Linux" |
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before the splash screen appears. Note that you do _not_ need an |
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initramfs for this work, just a usable framebuffer device, resolution, |
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and bit-depth. The "rc-update -a splash boot" step should give you a |
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splash screen at this point. FYI, I have found that 32-bit depths work |
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best. |
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If you want the splash to appear as early as possible (while the kernel |
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is initializing), you first need to determine which "sources" you are |
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running. Vanilla-sources does not contain the fbsplash support that is |
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required, so you may need to reconfigure/rebuild with gentoo-sources or |
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suspend2-sources. This is also the case where you need the initramfs. |
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The important kernel options are: |
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CONFIG_FB=y |
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CONFIG_FB_VESA=y |
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CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y (if you want vesafb-tng, which I highly recommend) |
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CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y |
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CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=y |
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Someone else will have to help with the initramfs errors. I had to |
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build my initramfs manually for reasons not related to fbsplash. |
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HTH, |
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-Richard |
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