I have updated to udev and got most things kinda working (as is the case of any linux system where it's never 100%)...
The loading screen with the progress bar works fine. If I hit F2 to see the stuff going on, here's where it has issues.. There is no background image (as there used to be prior to udev). I've run this command: splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200 -r 1600x1200 emergence And I have this file: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1475639 Dec 4 21:37 fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200 My grub.conf has: title Gentoo Linux vmlinuz (2.6.14r2) [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:emergence,tty:12 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 hdb=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hda6 pmdisk=/dev/hda6 netdev=5,0xec80,eth0 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200 I do get a hi-res screen (like framebuffer is working it seems), however I have a 1" margin on the right and bottom of my LCD display. It's like the screen is 1600x1200, but the console/text is not filling it up. HOWEVER, the loading/progress screen DOES fill it up. To further confuse me, this margin only happens on console 1. The other consoles all use the full width and height as they should. I notice if I hit return at the login prompt on console 1, that I see the text flash in the bottom 1" margin, and then appear up above the margin. In my kernel, I have VESA-TNG compiled in kernel, but if i use video=vesafb-tng it doesn't work at all (I only get the standard 640x480), yet video=vesafb does "work" in that I am a higher resolution?! Restarting /etc/init.d/consolefont or bootsplash doesn't seem to do anything. I do see this error flash by after pressing F2: Booting 'Gentoo Linux vmlinuz (2.6.14r2) [resume framebuffer splash 1600]' root=(hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel=(hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1600x1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,theme:emergence,tty:12 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 hdb=ide-scs i resume=/dev/hda6 pmdisk=/dev/hda6 netdev=5,0xec80,eth0 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00, size=0x20eacb] initrd (hd0,0)/boot/fbsplash-emergence-1600x1200 [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fe87000, 0x16843c bytes] Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. FBIOSPLASH_SETPIC failed, error code 515. Hint: are you calling 'setpic' for the current virtual console? INIT: version 2.86 booting This post was the only google I could find with that error in it. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-351048-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-2 5.html I tried these things and still no worky So to summarize my actual questions: [1] how do I get rid of the margin on console 1? [2] how do I get a background image to show on console 1 (only)? Thanks, Daevid. "You had me at EHLO" --E.Webb (10.04.05) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list