RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

[John Dangler]

Holly~
Maybe you can get this to work with this page...
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Option_1:_Compiling_The_initramfs_Imag
e_Directly_Into_The_Kernel

There's a section somewhere in here that talks about that exact error.

John D

-----Original Message-----
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:motub@××××××.nl] 
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:21 PM
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

Uwe Thiem schreef:
> On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote:
>
>>Uwe~
>>Yes, please share!  I'd be interested to see how this goes together
>
>
> Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-)
> <snip>
Thank you very much, Uwe, but I simply cannot get the livecd themes to work.

Adapting your methodology-- because I don't use genkernel-- in
combination with the wiki how-to, I compiled the initramfs into the
kernel, and the kernel does boot with the livecd theme-- but the theme
itself does not appear. This is an improvement, actually, as previously
I would get a kernel panic with the silent theme selected.

Now I just get the same message that I got previously with the verbose
splash:

no 8bb picture selected in config file (twice)

could not find silent image.

Haven't tried verbose yet as I've compiled this kernel 5 times today and
I'd really like to give the new ati drivers a spin for a while.

I have:

- copied most of the (working, afaik) emergence config file to the
livecd config file;

- converted the images to 8bit and saved them with the proper names;

- put the full path to the images in the config file;

- converted the "32-bit" images from .png to .jpg

None of it works. The images cannot be found.

I really don't know what else I can do, nor even what to file for a bug,
as I have no clue what's wrong. I've looked in the forums (nothing), and
the only partially relevant bug on b.g.o was marked invalid, being about
a 'non-standard' resolution (1280x800), whereas my issue is with a
standard resolution (1280x1024).

I really don't want to bother Spock with this, since it seems to be a
problem limited to me-- but honestly, what could it be?

Holly

P.S, oh btw, thanks for the instructions about setting up a GRUB theme
(which I have done, although using different instructions from yours, as
yours didn't mention that the image must be created with certain
constraints), but what I had said was that I needed a matching *GDM*
theme :) . Not that it matters, since I have no splash to tie the GRUB
theme to any future matching GDM theme anyway....

H.

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