I used to have fbsplash or bootsplash or whatever it's called these days working back around 2.6.14 or earlier. Then it broke in 2.6.15 (as per wiki) and I never built a new kernel till now with .17
This is on a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook. I'm following along here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash And also looked here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/troubleshooting.php But basically nothing happens when I reboot. :-\ This works fine: # splash_manager --theme=livecd-2006.1 --cmd=set --tty=1 And if I do this, it also works: # splash_manager --theme=livecd-2006.0 --cmd=set --tty=12 Here are some relevant parts. I don't use genkernel. dmesg: vesafb: unrecognized option mtrr vesafb: NVidia Corporation, NV17 () Board, Chip Rev A2 (OEM: NVidia) vesafb: VBE version: 3.0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:f200 vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00cf245, set palette = c00cf2ca vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 ba03 c003 c103 c403 c503 c603 c703 c803 c903 cc03 ce03 cf03 d003 d103 d203 d303 d403 d503 da03 ff03 vesafb: VBIOS/hardware doesn't support DDC transfers vesafb: no monitor limits have been set vesafb: scrolling: ywrap using protected mode interface, yres_virtual=2400 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 200x75 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 7500k, total 32768k fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device title Gentoo Linux [resume framebuffer splash 1600] root=(hd0,0) kernel=(hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,theme:livecd-2006.1,tty:12 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 hdb=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 pmdisk=/dev/hda6 netdev=5,0xec80,eth0 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/fbsplash-livecd-2006.1-1600x1200 boot # ll total 20891 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Sep 19 01:52 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Sep 19 01:57 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Sep 19 01:52 System.map -> System.map-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1012871 Sep 19 01:52 System.map-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Sep 19 01:52 System.map.old -> System.map-2.6.17-gentoo-r8.old lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Sep 4 2004 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2171904 Feb 21 2006 bzImage lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Sep 19 01:52 config -> config-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41997 Sep 19 01:52 config-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42751 Feb 21 2006 config-new -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 649657 Sep 19 01:43 fbsplash-livecd-2006.1-1600x1200 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2262456 Apr 12 2005 fbsplash.tgz drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 19 01:46 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41895 Feb 27 2004 splash.initrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Sep 19 01:52 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2893125 Sep 19 01:52 vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 locutus ~ # rc-update show splash | boot default ÐÆ5ÏÐ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
