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On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> LostSon schreef: |
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> > Hello |
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> > I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the |
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> > directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb |
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> > with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this |
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> > |
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> > title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash |
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> > root (hd0,0) |
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> > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new25 root=/dev/hda3 |
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> > video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768@70 spla$ |
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> > initrd (hd0,0)/fbsplash-gentoo-1024x768 |
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> > |
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> > It tries to go to it but it just stays in text mode with no splash it |
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> > doesnt even go to 1024x768. I get this when booting |
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> > |
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> > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768@70 |
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> > splash=silent,theme:gentoo quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 |
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> > |
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> > Im not sure what that means though. Any ideas, thanks. |
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> |
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> That means, afaik, that there is an error in the syntax of that specific |
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> line, and you need to fix it, as GRUB can't figure out or even guess |
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> what the heck you mean. |
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> |
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> For reference, here's my kernel command line (splash does work for me): |
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> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 |
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> video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,mtrr,pmipal,1280x1024-32@60 |
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> splash=silent,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 |
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> |
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> The (main) difference I see is that you have no bit depth specified in |
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> your video= command, but perhaps vesafb doesn't need one. I also see |
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> that I'm using pmipal and you aren't but since I don't even know what |
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> that is anyway, I'll assume it's not important. |
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> So what I'm wondering is-- you're asking for vesafb in the command line, |
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> but is that actually the framebuffer that you've selected in the kernel |
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> (in menuconfig, Device Drivers section =>Graphics support, what is the |
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> actual name of the vesa framebuffer being built)? |
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> |
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> Mine looks like |
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> |
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> VESA VGA graphics support |
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> |
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> VESA driver type (vesafb-tng) ---> |
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> Does it actually say 'vesafb' between your parentheses (as I believe |
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> that vesafb-tng is the default if you enable VESA VGA graphics support)? |
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> |
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> Also what version of splashutils, did you recently upgrade the kernel |
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> from 2.6.11, and if so, did you re-generate the splash initrd (there's |
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> an einfo to this effect in the recent splashutils ebuilds)? |
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> |
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> HTH, |
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> Holly |
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Ok i tried adding that in my line but still no luck alot of what im |
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getting is errors about not being able to load config files and fd0 or |
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fb0 it goes by so fast and i cannot find these error messages in any of |
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my logs either. Im using splashutils-1.1.9.7 btw, thanks |
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LostSon |
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