Mick schrieb:
Hi All,
I've just compiled kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 which comes with uvesa and thought
of using it on a box of mine. However, amidst other weird and wonderful
errors that the new kernel gives me on this box, I have completely failed to
get uvesafb to work.
When it boots up it comes up with these errors:
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* Setting framebuffer console images
Can't open cfg file //etc/splash/emergence/640x480.cfg
No 8bpp silent picture specified in the theme
No 8bpp verbose picture specified in the theme
* Failed to set background image on tty1
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Meanwhile the penguins and fonts on the boot console are shown in some
impossibly large size. My kernel line is:
kernel /kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/sda3 \
video=uvesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED],ywrap,mtrr:4, \
splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
initrd /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1280x1024
Any ideas?
Just a shot in the dark are you using any kind of tv-out?
I had this problem with tv-out. I specified a resolution of 1280x1024.
When I connect my tv to my box the maximal resolution possible is
1024x768 because the tv-encoder does not offer higher resolutions. So
instead of switching to the next greatest resolution of 1024x768 the
uvesafb driver switches to smallest resolution of 640x480. This
resolution is not available in the emergence theme thus the splash fails!
If you have a problem like this there are existing patches whto the
kernel which are fixing this issue!
What does "cat /sys/devices/platform/uvesafb.0/vbe_modes" say?
Regards,
Daniel
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