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oracle40210
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 Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject: Can't find /dev/fbsplash in nitro-sources 2.6.8.1-nitro5 |
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I'm trying to get gensplash to work and i feel so dumb 'cause instructions are easy but i still can't make it work.
Only thing i know is that i get 'Can't fine /dev/fbsplash' after all kernel modules are loaded and i guess that shouldn't happen so let's start from there 
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rush_ad
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:57 am Post subject: |
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| dont feel bad. i've been trying to get gensplash or bootsplash to work with nitro , love, gentoo-dev for a long time. still no luck. it just boots up without splash with no error. |
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oracle40210
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:19 am Post subject: |
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I feel bad because i was used to my bootsplash before switching to nitro and now it's hard to go back... i wish i could use bootsplash at least instead of gensplash but i don't know if there's a way to do that because if you have one you can't have the other one and nitro comes with gensplash... 
If someone knows a way PLEASE tell me! |
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sibov
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:37 am Post subject: |
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 Hi,
2.6.8.1-nitro5 with gensplash, will give you /dev/fbsplash
gensplash is the future and it 's working fine on my side.
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oracle40210
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:16 am Post subject: |
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gensplash is supposed to be included in nitro (am i wrong?!?) and i don't have /dev/fbsplash.
I'm running 2.6.8.1-nitro5.
I would be happy to use gensplash since bootsplash is going to be discontinued... still waiting for help! |
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neonik
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Well I couldn't get it working with 2.6.8.1 kernels, none of ones I've tried, wasn't in the mood to figure out why.
You just need to distinguish between fbspash, gensplash and splashutils.
| spock wrote: | Gensplash is a project started by me. It's general aim is creating a set of tools which could "enrich" the Gentoo boot process (displaying messages, animations, progress bars, etc). It has been divided into two stages. The first stage consists of developing fbsplash and splashutils. The second stage is about developing the new program (or a set of programs) that will be reponsible for displaying all the nice and fancy things during boot-up/shutdown/reboot.
Fbsplash is kernel patch developed as a part of the gensplash project. It creates an interface between the kernel and userspace, which different programs can use to switch the system between the silent and verbose modes, and to set graphical backgrounds on consoles.
Splashutils is a package consisting of a few userspace programs, the most important of them being the 'splash_helper', which answers all requests from the kernel. Splashutils and fbsplash, when installed and properly configured, provide all the features of bootsplash. |
It may depend on the fb module: vesafb/vesafb-tng, although it shouldn't.
By the way, I've just noticed, spock released a new patch for the 2.6.8.1 kernels, the one in nitro-soures is: fbsplash-0.9-r5-2.6.8-rc3.patch.bz2. This could be the reason for it.
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res0r9lm
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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I have gensplash working with nitro5 without initramfs. maybe you need to edit the kernel line in grub.conf
| Code: | | video=vesafb:ypan,1024x768-32@85 theme=default splash=verbose |
or might need to to set the default resoultion in kernel config to 1024x768@85 |
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oracle40210
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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The system starts correctly in 1024x768 but i can't figure out why it's not working.
The only messege i get is "can't find /dev/fbsplash" right before prompting for user and passwd.
A lot of people say it's working fine so how come it's not working for me? What can i do to fix the error messege? I have a radeon 7500: is there a known issue about using gensplash with my card, maybe? |
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