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oli_f
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 Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:33 am Post subject: can't get bootsplash working [solved] |
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Hello,
I just started working with gentoo, mainly to learn more about linux. So far things went fairly well, system is up and running (no X11 yet). But I just can't get this bootsplash thing working - ok, that's not essential but as I said, I'm doing this more for the experience.
My kernel is 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 (from gentoo-sources), the PC is an old PII 350 MHz having a nVidia Riva 128 graphic card. Below I will post some sections of my kernel-config, dmesg and grub.conf, as those are probably needed anyway to help me out.
I emerged the most current version of bootsplash, I tried different resolutions, color-depths etc. and used different kernel-options in grub.conf (silent,verbose,none of these, vga & vesafb, just vesafb...). I took an initrd image from /var/share/bootsplash and I generated one myself as well. Doing all this always results in the same: no image will show up at all (apart from grub's splash). Though resolution and graphic-mode settings seem to affect font size of the startup messages.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks a lot!
grub.conf
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default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda3 ramdisk=100 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,800x600-16@80
initrd=/boot/initrd-800x600
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parts from kernel-config
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#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y
CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32
...
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=""
CONFIG_LBD=y
# CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD is not set
...
#
# Graphics support
#
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_SOFT_CURSOR=y
# CONFIG_FB_MACMODES is not set
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
# CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ASILIANT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
# CONFIG_FB_VESA_STD is not set
CONFIG_FB_VESA_TNG=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA_DEFAULT_MODE="640x480@60"
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
# CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_I810 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_INTEL is not set
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set
# CONFIG_FB_KYRO is not set
# CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_GEODE is not set
# CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
#
# Console display driver support
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FONTS is not set
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
#
# Logo configuration
#
# CONFIG_LOGO is not set
# CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT is not set
CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=y
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and finally some startup messages from dmesg
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Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ramdisk=100 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,800x600-16@80
Found and enabled local APIC!
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 8192 bytes)
Detected 348.526 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
qConsole: colour VGA+ 80x25
...
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 27k freed
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[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
vesafb: NVidia, Riva 128 Eval Card, Rev C1 (OEM: NVidia)
vesafb: VBE version: 3.0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:4705
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c472c, set palette = c00c478e
vesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf 3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da
vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfers
vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 160 Hz, hf = 96 kHz, clk = 210 MHz
vesafb: scrolling: ywrap using protected mode interface, yres_virtual=1200
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf3000000, mapped to 0xc8880000, using 1875k, total 4096k
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
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homer77
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:43 am Post subject: fbsplash or bootsplash? |
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As far as I can see you try to use old bootsplash instead of good working fbsplah? If so you should
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and check out this really good tutorial at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
when you followed these instructions and still have problems, let me know.
Oh, and if it works, too, if you mind? |
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oli_f
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: better but not really working yet |
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Thanks for the prompt reply! I tried fbsplash instead of bootsplash now and the result is the following:
At startup it now states
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checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1066k freed
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which is the correct size of my initrd image.
But unfortunately no bootsplash shows up. When the vesafb initialisation is reached the resolution is changed according to my settings - but still no bootsplash. At the very end of the startup process however
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Setting framebuffer console images ...
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is stated and the splash image is loaded, which is fine as I added splash to the default runlevel. |
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oli_f
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Just returned from short vacations but obviously nothing has been going on in this thread... Anyone got any ideas? Would be very nice!
Cheers, Oli |
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oli_f
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:16 pm Post subject: problem solved... |
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| Ok, I just figured out what I did wrong - a pretty stupid mistake of course. I just didn't specify certain options on my kernel line in grub.conf. Such as theme:[...], quiet etc. |
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