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McMCC
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Will console fonts still be applied with that patch? |
The given patch will not affect in any way work of the console, fonts will work... |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, McMCC.
Here's another one. Well, I know it doesn't fix the problem but it's a bit faster; for those who fear editing kernel files: a possible workaround is to boot with kernel argument splash=verbose (in grub.conf or lilo.conf).
Console fonts are applied and no error occurs. I made that change temporarily until the bug is fixed in sources. Then I'll restore my bootsplash.
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VinzC
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| Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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I've tried your patch, McMCC.
But first congrat's! I hadn't seen your post count. You aren't any n00b are you  .
A strange thing happens though: the nice splash disappears and switches to verbose mode anyway where it used to say an error about putfont(). Results: I never see bootsplash run through.
Any more magic bullet?
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McMCC
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| Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| VinzC wrote: | I've tried your patch, McMCC.
But first congrat's! I hadn't seen your post count. You aren't any n00b are you .
A strange thing happens though: the nice splash disappears and switches to verbose mode anyway where it used to say an error about putfont(). Results: I never see bootsplash run through.
Any more magic bullet? |
I do not use Gentoo, I use Fedora Core 3, I have casually left on this forum when searched for the decision of a problem with setfont, in result I managed to solve this problem itself and now fbsplash works excellently together with setfont... The principal cause not works setfont consists that it uses mode KD_TEXT, it depends fblash in a mode silent uses KD_GRAPHICS, the given patch disconnects check of modes of the console and allows setfont to load fonts in any mode... |
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VinzC
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| McMCC wrote: | | The principal cause not works setfont consists that it uses mode KD_TEXT, it depends fblash in a mode silent uses KD_GRAPHICS, the given patch disconnects check of modes of the console and allows setfont to load fonts in any mode... |
Just a thought: can I prevent Gentoo from switching anyway to verbose mode by patching vt.c a bit further?
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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does that patch thingy work? how do i install it...
i am getting this annoying msg too... with fbsplash |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Endoscient wrote: | | does that patch thingy work? how do i install it... |
You must edit file /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/vt.c and apply changes mentionned by McMCC. Find a piece of code that looks like the following:
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int rc = -EINVAL;
int size;
if (vt_cons[currcons]->vc_mode != KD_TEXT)
return -EINVAL;
if (!op->data)
return -EINVAL;
if (op->charcount > 512)
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I suggest you searched for KD_TEXT in nano. Change code as follows:
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int rc = -EINVAL;
int size;
#ifndef CONFIG_FB_SPLASH /* Fix for setfont (McMCC) */
if (vt_cons[currcons]->vc_mode != KD_TEXT)
return -EINVAL;
#endif
if (!op->data)
return -EINVAL;
if (op->charcount > 512)
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Don't forget to make a backup of that file before making changes. Then recompile your kernel.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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The patch didn't work for me. It thought of a solution, but i don't know if it is possible: to put the consolefont as the last thing that init runs, and the consolefont script to first tell the splash to go verbose (so it doesn't give that error). If anyone knows how this can be done...
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| WladyX wrote: | | The patch didn't work for me. |
Do you mean you're still getting an error or does the screen turn back to verbose mode without error? I don't get any error but verbose mode is back at the same moment the error took place.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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I still get the error, the splash does not go verbose because of consolefont like it was said, it goes verbose when the splash init is started. If you make consolefont to start after splash it works (no error&the fonts are applied), but the other ttys don't have splash aplied, very strange. 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:42 am Post subject: |
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| WladyX wrote: | | I still get the error, the splash does not go verbose because of consolefont like it was said, it goes verbose when the splash init is started. If you make consolefont to start after splash it works (no error&the fonts are applied), but the other ttys don't have splash aplied, very strange. |
Please then post the content of uname -a and dmesg. We'll see.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry i modifeid back my kernel, edited the consolefont not to send the output and made splash not to go verbose on errors, so it would be irrelevant at this time, but thank you for tring to help me 
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:36 am Post subject: Having console font |
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I'm french Canadian and I use accents in console mode. If consolefont failes, then convertion from iso to unicode failes to, and I get bizarre symboles. Here is my fix:
First remove consolefont from rc
| Code: | | rc-update del consolefont |
Then add this line to /etc/conf.d/local.start
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/consolefont start |
This makes consolefont work properly with splash screen in silent mode. The splash screen is still switched to verbose mode near step 3 of the init process. I don't know why since there is no error on screen.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 4:00 am Post subject: An other solution |
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An other solution:
Remove from rc
| Code: | | rc-update del consolefont |
Add this to /etc/conf.d/local.start in the same order:
| Code: | splash_util -mv -c setmode
/etc/init.d/consolefont start |
And never switch on error:
In /etc/conf.d/splash
| Code: | | SPLASH_VERBOSE_ON_ERRORS="no" |
That's it, don't forget to switch the on errors to yes when you update your system.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:25 am Post subject: |
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If you make splash not to go verbose on errors, you don't have to make the other changes (put consolefont and splash in local). Maybe only edit consolefont not to print the error message, if it bugs you.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:56 am Post subject: putfont will not work in silent mode |
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Yes you need the other steps if putfont is doing job for you. The fact is that in vesa mode, you cannot access font palette when you are in a complete videomode. In that mode we use that palette to enlarge the real palette. That mean, you need to be in verbose mode to be able to set font on your tty.
So if you ask your splash not to switch on errors and don't make changes I propose to your local.start, then you'll end up with bad console font, which mean you'll get bizarre symbole instead of accent if you are using unicode.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject: PIO_FONT error without gensplash |
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Hi,
unfortunately i had to recompile compleate gentoo... so now I have only system, nvidia,alsa,xorg,kde.
and.... | Quote: | holly root # setfont
putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument
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So I thought (and hope) its fbsplash bug and it will be removed in next version...BUT I have the same problem even without fbsplash.... ????
have you any idea how it is in real? and how to fix it?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:09 am Post subject: This is not a fb splash bug |
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It is not a fbsplash bug. I think the bug is that PIO functions are not correctly used in the font application.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:04 am Post subject: ))-: |
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hmm... is there any known solution already? this post start to be quite and I still haven't idea how to fix it.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:47 pm Post subject: There is |
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Try reading previous post, and you'll see that there is a fix. It's probably why it is so quite here...
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:38 am Post subject: |
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Hi!
I have the same problem since installing splashutils...
I think the problem should be fixed so that it works out of the box. Right now I see several solutions how to fix it in this thread, but I don't know which one to choose.
Best regards
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| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:51 am Post subject: |
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I'm excited at testing it since I've yet got a lockup (again  ) with recent kernel sources gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r(5 maybe). See this post.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Well I tried gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r6 with splashutils 0.9.1 and it seems to work (boot) quite fine. I'll post back to say if splash autoswitch has been fixed
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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I wrote too quickly. My PC still happens to hang while initializing VesaFB module. I pushed the hard reset button and it booted as expected, i.e. started with splash screen. It's exactly the problem I had when I first tried splashutils...
Moreover splash still goes to verbose mode with that bloody PIO_FONT error message. So in my case nothing was solved. It's even worse than gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r12 for that kernel never hung in vesafb.
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