On Thursday 23 June 2011 17:28:15 Dale did opine thusly: > John wrote: > > Since upgrading my kernel to .39 my beloved splash screen has > > stopped working. I have followed guidelines in wiki that > > someone has very kindly written. Reverting back to older kernel > > the splash screen works as expected. I've tried this on 2 > > machines. I have seen somewhere that a patch is added to kernel > > to help this. Is this included in .39? > > > > I believe the issue maybe due to /sbin/fbcondecor_helper in > > initrd but not really too sure. My debugging skills are lacking > > somewhat. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this and can anyone offer an > > alternative method for producing splash. > > > > I am currently using vesafb and splash_geninitramfs to create > > splash screens? > > I have noticed that people seem to have various issues with .39. > Maybe roll back to a older kernel and give it a few versions to get > some fixes in. I had X issues, someone else had some network issue > and someone else has some other odd issue. I think .39 is > currently a lemon. > > If you can make it with the old .38 version, I would. At least for > a little bit anyway.
.39 screwed up my nouveau frame buffer, took a lot of frantic hit and miss with graphics options to get it back. .38 was rock-solid I wonder what 3.0 will be like -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
