I tried setting up bootsplash, on my Etch box, and have failed miserably. I installed it, and messed around with the /boot/grub/menu.lst file, adding "vga=791 splash=silent" to the kernel line. It made the print smaller, but did not give me a nifty bootsplash. I then attempted to recompile my kernel, as instructed (a hell of a thing to have to do just to get a bootsplash, but, well, since I had started.....)
Anyway, first using menuconfig, and then xconfig, I was unable to find any entry for "Console drivers". I did find some framebuffer stuff, but nothing about "Use splash screen instead of boot logo", as I was instructed to turn on. I did find something about turning on a penguin during bootup (the "boot logo", maybe?). I checked that, just so that I could say to myself, "Well, at least I did SOMETHING". Now, hours later, I'm still waiting for the revised kernel to finish its stuff, via the command fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers. Yikes. Has anyone else succeeded with bootsplash? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
