Marc Blumentritt wrote: > I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is > working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are > written an screen "above" (for lack of a better word) my splash. When > the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is moving > upwards with every new line printed. When the messages reach "Starting > XDM" the screen is not switched to the 7th terminal, where X is running. > I have to switch manually by pressing alt-F7.
The problem is with your linuxrc file in the initrd (you are using genkernel to build your initrd, right?) There's a mistake in the section which parses the kernel command line so that it misses the CONSOLE=tty1 bit... causing it to write all over the splash screen. There's already a bug report (#232012) on this filed in july and I've supplied information about how to work around this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232012 Let's hope the genkernel developers get the time to fix this. -- Regards, Gregory.
