[gentoo-user] gensplash problem with X

2007-08-21 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Hi, when I boot my new system with gensplash, the console is OK up until X is started via gdm. Afterward all consoles are "smeared" and "broken". Starting X via startx results in a similar problem plus X is not starting. I try to give you all relevant data in the hopes to get some clues for my pro

[gentoo-user] Gensplash

2006-08-26 Thread Mick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Two different boxen. One has splash added to the boot runlevel - it shows up the framebuffer image on the console, towards the end of the boot sequence. If I rc-update -d splash boot, there is no framebuffer background image shown. This all

Re: [gentoo-user] gensplash oddity

2005-08-22 Thread Matthias Krebs
On 8/22/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok - I went back through the wiki article on using gensplash with genkernel. > I used - genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=livecd-2005.1 all > (I usually --udev on the end, but every time I get told that -udev is > deprecated since it is the def

Re: [gentoo-user] gensplash oddity

2005-08-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 August 2005 04:05, John Dangler wrote: > Ok - I went back through the wiki article on using gensplash with > genkernel. I used - genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=livecd-2005.1 all > (I usually --udev on the end, but every time I get told that -udev is > deprecated since it is the default be

Re: [gentoo-user] gensplash oddity

2005-08-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 23:05 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I don't know about the > ERROR: Could not copy the initramfs to /boot error, but I know on my inspiron 9100, but this: > After the initial information at bootup, all I got was a black screen [This > is on a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop. I may

[gentoo-user] gensplash oddity

2005-08-21 Thread John Dangler
Ok - I went back through the wiki article on using gensplash with genkernel. I used - genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=livecd-2005.1 all (I usually --udev on the end, but every time I get told that -udev is deprecated since it is the default behavior) At the end of the process, I checked /var/log