On 6/21/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
The Gentoo Wiki page lists two different entries for doing
framebuffer setup. I've never used framebuffers and wanted to check it
out. Which is more appropriate for a new installation of 2007.0 on an
older machine? (Athlon XP 1600+ with an NVidia GeForce4 MX 4000)
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Framebuffer:Bootsplash:Grubsplash
Why aren't these Wiki pages dated or am I missing that?
Thanks,
Mark
For lack of wanting to wait I proceeded with the HOWTO_fbsplash page.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
Things are going OK and I'm down to the point where I should be able
to display the splash page by hand using the following command:
splash_manager --theme=livecd-2007.0 --cmd=set --tty=1
which results in the following error:
Rocker ~ # splash_manager --theme=livecd-2007.0 --cmd=set --tty=1
No 8bpp verbose picture specified in the theme.
FBIOSPLASH_SETSTATE failed, error code 9.
Rocker ~ #
I presume this is saying that it doesn't support 24-bit color mapping?
I see from xdpyinfo that I seem to have 24 bit as default?
<SNIP>
screen #0:
print screen: no
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (433x347 millimeters)
resolution: 75x75 dots per inch
depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
root window id: 0xa3
depth of root window: 24 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x20
<SNIP>
Following that I tried switching to 16-bit operation in X but I still
get the same message:
<SNIP>
screen #0:
print screen: no
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (433x347 millimeters)
resolution: 75x75 dots per inch
depths (7): 16, 1, 4, 8, 15, 24, 32
root window id: 0x7f
depth of root window: 16 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x20
default number of colormap cells: 64
preallocated pixels: black 0, white 65535
options: backing-store NO, save-unders NO
<SNIP>
Rocker ~ # splash_manager --theme=livecd-2007.0 --cmd=set --tty=1
No 8bpp verbose picture specified in the theme.
FBIOSPLASH_SETSTATE failed, error code 9.
Rocker ~ #
Rocker ~ # zcat /boot/fbsplash-livecd-2007.0-1280x1024 | cpio --list
.
root
sbin
sbin/splash_helper
dev
dev/null
dev/misc
dev/fb
dev/console
dev/vc
etc
etc/splash
etc/splash/livecd-2007.0
etc/splash/livecd-2007.0/1280x1024.cfg
etc/splash/livecd-2007.0/images
etc/splash/livecd-2007.0/images/background-1280x1024.png
etc/splash/livecd-2007.0/images/verbose-1280x1024.png
etc/splash/livecd-2007.0/images/overlay-1024.png
etc/splash/livecd-2007.0/Vera.ttf
lib
lib/splash
lib/splash/sys
lib/splash/proc
768 blocks
Rocker ~ #
At this point I'm not at all sure what to do so if anyone can help
me save some time I would certainly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Mark
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