If you use the nvidia driver, you might have problems. I tried using fbsplash with 2.6.12-r6 and -r4 using vidia 7667 drivers, but no luck with rivafb, vesafb or nvidiafb. I then searched nvidia forums and read their readme and apparently their driver deosnt support framebuffering very well.
So after spending a day messing with and research fb'ing, i gots nothing but messed up fonts in xfce which i'm STILL trying to fix and actaully, i might send a email to the list about it chris Quoting LostSon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > LostSon schreef: > > > Hello > > > I am trying to get fbsplash to work and am stuck. I have followed the > > > directions on the gentoo-wiki site but still no luck. Im using vesafb > > > with a 2.6.12-r6 kernel. my grub.conf looks like this > > > > > > title=Gentoo-2.6.12-r6-fbsplash > > > root (hd0,0) > > > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage.new25 root=/dev/hda3 > > > video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] spla$ > > > initrd (hd0,0)/fbsplash-gentoo-1024x768 > > > > > > It tries to go to it but it just stays in text mode with no splash it > > > doesnt even go to 1024x768. I get this when booting > > > > > > Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL > > > PROTECTED] > > > splash=silent,theme:gentoo quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 > > > > > > Im not sure what that means though. Any ideas, thanks. > > > > That means, afaik, that there is an error in the syntax of that specific > > line, and you need to fix it, as GRUB can't figure out or even guess > > what the heck you mean. > > > > For reference, here's my kernel command line (splash does work for me): > > > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 > > video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,mtrr,pmipal,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > splash=silent,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 > > > > The (main) difference I see is that you have no bit depth specified in > > your video= command, but perhaps vesafb doesn't need one. I also see > > that I'm using pmipal and you aren't but since I don't even know what > > that is anyway, I'll assume it's not important. > > > > So what I'm wondering is-- you're asking for vesafb in the command line, > > but is that actually the framebuffer that you've selected in the kernel > > (in menuconfig, Device Drivers section =>Graphics support, what is the > > actual name of the vesa framebuffer being built)? > > > > Mine looks like > > > > VESA VGA graphics support > > > > VESA driver type (vesafb-tng) ---> > > > > Does it actually say 'vesafb' between your parentheses (as I believe > > that vesafb-tng is the default if you enable VESA VGA graphics support)? > > > > Also what version of splashutils, did you recently upgrade the kernel > > from 2.6.11, and if so, did you re-generate the splash initrd (there's > > an einfo to this effect in the recent splashutils ebuilds)? > > > > HTH, > > Holly > > Ok i tried adding that in my line but still no luck alot of what im > getting is errors about not being able to load config files and fd0 or > fb0 it goes by so fast and i cannot find these error messages in any of > my logs either. Im using splashutils-1.1.9.7 btw, thanks > -- > LostSon > > http://www.lostsonsvault.org > > Fox Cities Linux User Group = www.foxlug.org > ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
