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olias2
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 Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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I'm following darkcoder's instructions and I got lost because I'm a n00b... | Quote: | 1) emerge baselayout no greater than 1.8.6.9 (still not supported by the patch). I personally use 1.8.6.9.
2) emerge bootsplash if it is not in your sistem.
3) download the bootsplash progress bar patch from here: http://www.aichler.net/gentoo/bootsplash/downloads.html
4) get the cd bootsplash. It's /isolinux/initrd.1024. And save it in /boot.
5) Modify grub.conf with...
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Here's where I'm at...
1. No problem but had to etc-update more than a few files and confirm each one.
2. No Problem but had to add 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"' to make.conf
At the end of the emerge it said to do this...
| Code: | Execute "ebuild /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r2/bootsplash-0.6-r2.ebuild config" to have your kernel sources in /usr/src/linux patched with the Framebuffer Bootsplash patches
If you have already patched the kernel then you only need to copy an initrd from /usr/share/bootsplash to /boot
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rc-update add bootsplash default
to change the console images after startup. |
... my question how do I Execute "ebuild /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r2/bootsplash-0.6-r2.ebuild config ?
Thanks, Olias
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stig
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| olias2 wrote: |
... my question how do I Execute "ebuild /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r2/bootsplash-0.6-r2.ebuild config ?
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You just type
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ebuild /var/db/pkg/media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r2/bootsplash-0.6-r2.ebuild config |
as root 
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olias2
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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My bad, that's seems obvious now.  I'm just D/L the gaming-sources kernel and will set it up before I patch it.
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viperlin
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 11:11 am Post subject: |
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| micha wrote: | Hi,
| darkcoder wrote: | | anyone was able to make it work under baselayout-1.8.6.10? |
I updated the patch to baselayout 1.8.6.10 today.
The font issue should also be fixed now ( several calls to fbtruetpye during boot caused that issue, like Blurpy assumed).
micha |
sadly it does not work with the new 1.8.6.10-r1 , i'm downgrading so i can use your excelent patch
EDIT: ok thats too many config files to downgrade, sorry |
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ubikas
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| Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| viperlin wrote: | sadly it does not work with the new 1.8.6.10-r1 , i'm downgrading so i can use your excelent patch
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Well, it works fine with 1.8.6.10-r1 for me, off course it complains that it doesn't support this version, but applying the patch for 1.8.6.10 works fine |
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viperlin
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks it orders them weirdly, 1.8.6.9 is the last option and 1.8.6.10 is option 2, it confused me |
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ubikas
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 12:51 am Post subject: |
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| Jep i agree with you, the order is really tricky. Glad it helped. |
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Loke
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| Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 3:40 am Post subject: |
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!SOLVED!
Ive been trying to get the silent progress bar working for ages now, but god damn its not working 
Ive got the framebuffer set up correctly, and I get the bootsplash from the LiveCD showing (with Larry the cow in the background), but I cant get it to be silent. It still shows verbose mode. Before HDD activity I can briefly see the "Booting the system... Press F2 for verbose mode" , but as the various services are started it disappears.
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cat /proc/cmdline
auto BOOT_IMAGE=Gentoo ro root=2101 video=mtrr,vesa:800x600 splash=silent
uname -a
2.4.20-gentoo-r7 #1 Mon Sep 29 17:40:11 CEST 2003 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1400MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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I can even display the boot animations on tty1 if I execute:
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bootanim start /path/to/hdd.mng
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for example. So things are definately working somehow, but it just wont go silent and display the silent-picture from the bootsplash package.
Viewing my dmesg reveals the probable cause of my problem:
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vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xf0800000, size 937k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0f03
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... silenjpeg size 10586 bytes, does not fit into framebuffer.
found (800x600, 17995 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 93x31
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
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I take it that the silent-800x600.jpg image from the bootsplash package somehow doesnt fit into my framebuffer. How do I solve this? Thank you.
!SOLVED!
I hacked the vesafb.c source so that the framebuffer size was increased, and afterwards it worked.
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Atom Smasher
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I will try this soon. i hope it works....got a LAN party to goto this weekened and sure would like to get rid of all that scrolling text when I boot up |
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Atom Smasher
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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I went to install and this is what I got
| Code: | bash-2.05b# ./install.sh
*****************************************************************
* WARNING: You do not have any version of the baselayout package
* supported by this script. The versions should match, because I
* have to patch some files out of the baselayout package
* (/sbin/rc, /sbin/functions.sh, /sbin/runscript.sh, /etc/init.d/halt.sh).
* If you want to proceed, I will make a backup of each file
* (/sbin/rc~, /sbin/functions.sh~, /sbin/runscript.sh~ /etc/init.d/halt.sh~).
******************************************************************
Should I proceed ? (y/n): n
bash-2.05b# |
I have the version
| Code: | * sys-apps/baselayout
Latest version available: 1.8.6.11
Latest version installed: 1.8.6.10-r1
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Is there a way to make it work for this version or a way to downgrade to the .9 version?? Thanks. |
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viperlin
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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it works with 10-r1
just press yes and tell it you have 10 (option 2 i beleve)
and if you look above i just had this problem and it was solved this way,  ) |
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Atom Smasher
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks asshole... i ran your script and it nuked my /boot
I reboot and get grub error 15
so i boot to the live cd and have to reinstall my stuff.. |
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Loke
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Atom Smasher wrote: | Thanks asshole... i ran your script and it nuked my /boot
I reboot and get grub error 15
so i boot to the live cd and have to reinstall my stuff.. |
What are you? Like 13 years old or something? Totally unacceptable behaviour from you. I hope a mod throws your ass out faster than you could say nih. If you dont have the skills or the balls to play around with your system - leave it be. Bashing people trying to help you and calling them names is lowlife...
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Farkenell
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 4:17 am Post subject: |
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hrmm...
heyas, I got my bootsplash runnin fine and everything but
for the font and text "f2 to verbose mode etc", in the config u can set the font colour....whats the code for just plain black? the initial code (for white) looked unfamiliar to me...so didn't wanna change it... |
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viperlin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| Atom Smasher wrote: | Thanks asshole... i ran your script and it nuked my /boot
I reboot and get grub error 15
so i boot to the live cd and have to reinstall my stuff.. |
backups.......
undo what the script did........
grow up......
other than that i dont feel like helping you |
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randall_flagg
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 11:44 am Post subject: I can't get it to work either! |
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I tried getting the live cd boot splash to work and no go. = (. I followed all the steps in most of the guides iv'e seen throught the forum and right after I regenerate a new initrd file and change my grub.conf file to reference it the machine boots with the live cd splash but my kernel panics saying he following
buffer layer error @ FS/buffer:2829
no partitions found
kernel panic
Iv'e had the default ugly silent bootsplash working fine for awhile now I'm just trying to get a better looking one  Any ideas? I thank you for your help in advance!!
gentoo 2004.1 Kernel 2.6.3-gentoo-r1
athlon 2600
Asus A7N8x Deluxe |
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