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Chickpea
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| No, it is not necessary to download the gentoo-artwork to use th bootsplash. |
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Narada
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 9:40 pm Post subject: Re: What about w/o KDE? |
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| monkeyBox wrote: | | Is it neccessary to emerge gentoo-artwork? because for some reason gentoo-artwork requires kde-base... (not sure why). Since I don't use KDE I'd rather not have to compile it just to get some artwork.. Is it really necessary to have KDE as a dependancy?? |
To get gentoo-artwork without kde try command below using pretend mode initially. | Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 USE=-kde emerge gentoo-artwork |
If portage still wants to get kde then prefetch the tarball and extract it yourself to get the contents. | Code: | | emerge -f gentoo-artwork |
Gentoo-artwork is entirely optional for the purpose of getting nice artwork on gentoo theme. I have now added a note in the How-To to say so.
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Should I disable radeon support in Framebuffer to get it working? It seems that vesafb conflicts with radeonfb, because dmesg says
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radeonfb: ref_clk=2700, ref_div=12, xclk=27500 defaults
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
radeonfb: ATI Radeon 8500 QL DDR SGRAM 64 MB
radeonfb: DVI port CRT monitor connected
radeonfb: CRT port CRT monitor connected
vesafb: abort, cannot reserve video memory at 0xd0000000
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe4813000, size 65536k
vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=24
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:54b4
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb1: VESA VGA frame buffer device
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Narada
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| silex wrote: | | Should I disable radeon support in Framebuffer to get it working? It seems that vesafb conflicts with radeonfb. |
Try disabling all radeon specific options in kernel. For more specific information support press the '?' key after highlighting each of the radeon FB options in turn in the kernel and move on to read the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/.
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acerbix
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 2:22 am Post subject: |
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| Narada wrote: | | acerbix wrote: | | (Before making the bootsplash changes, everything described below worked okay: I am using the gaming sources 2.4.20-r2 srcs on a sony vaio grx 690: Also I made *only* the changes described in this guide to the kernel config to minimize possible failure points) |
I'm hoping you didn't patch this kernel since the latest versions of gaming sources and gentoo sources (r3) already have the bootsplash patch built in. The use of gentoo sources r3 isn't recommended due to reports of compilation failures however. |
I am using the "vanilla"(?) gaming sources (r2). My pcmcia problem was caused as the kernel b uild hosed the pcmcia-cs install. After unmerging and re-emerging pcmcia-cs, I was okay. You might want to consider adding this in the howto, as this might be helpful to anyone who uses a laptop (i.e. pcmcia services)
Also, the kernel build hosed the XFree86 4.3 radeon driver (the version shipped with the kernel is 1.1.1) and DRI was disabled. In order to re-enable DRI, I had to re-emerge xfree-drm. |
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acerbix
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| silex wrote: | | Narada wrote: | | acerbix wrote: | | (Before making the bootsplash changes, everything described below worked okay: I am using the gaming sources 2.4.20-r2 srcs on a sony vaio grx 690: Also I made *only* the changes described in this guide to the kernel config to minimize possible failure points) |
I'm hoping you didn't patch this kernel since the latest versions of gaming sources and gentoo sources already have the bootsplash patch built in. |
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I am using the gaming srcs, which do not need to be patched. The r2 gaming srcs are part of the ut2003 demo livecd.
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anz
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:51 am Post subject: splash troubles |
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| guero61 wrote: | I've gotten to applying an image to VC1, and I'm stumped; I get this error:
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syntax error: text_x=256
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It's the only error returned. What gives? |
I have similar troubles - after the splash device I also get only the error message above. And the initrd file was empty ...
Un- and re-emerging the bootsplash could not help. 
BUT: in /usr/share/bootsplash/ you can find working initrd files. Just copy the file you need (f.e. initrd-1024x768).
So I can enjoy the fine bootsplash ... thanks alot for that "built in way out"! 
Greetings, anz
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Cappy
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Narada, add another pat on your back  Excellent tut !! I've been struggling on and off with this darn FB thing for awhile, with no positive results.....till now!! Worked perfect the first time through 
One question though..... the boxed out border that automatically populates the screen ( the light border with the red Gentoo logo on the bottom right)... Is there anyway to eliminate that completely ??? I want to be able to make my own console templates with my own border. If so, how do I go about doing this ???
Thanks again for an awesome tutorial
BTW: I hope this wasn't asked and answered already. I only had time to briefly go through this thread, so I may have missed it 
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satis
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| guero61 wrote: | What I said earlier:
What if it craps out at steps 9 _and_ 12 with a syntax error (text_x=256)? |
Try
| Code: | | /sbin/splash -s -f /etc/bootsplash/default/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg > /boot/initrd-1280x1024 |
instead of just
| Code: | | splash -s -f /etc/bootsplash/default/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg > /boot/initrd-1280x1024 |
(put /sbin/ in the beginning)
If it works you probably have an older version of splash installed (ie <v3) somewhere (/bin maybe?). |
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Narada
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Cappy wrote: | | One question though..... the boxed out border that automatically populates the screen ( the light border with the red Gentoo logo on the bottom right)... Is there anyway to eliminate that completely ??? I want to be able to make my own console templates with my own border. If so, how do I go about doing this? |
Glad it worked out well for you. Regarding creating your own theme here is a very quick run through which you should modify to your resolution and choice of directory name. I intend to do a section on this on the original post when I have more time. | Code: | mkdir /etc/bootsplash/personal/
mkdir /etc/bootsplash/personal/images/ (put your images here)
mkdir /etc/bootsplash/personal/config/ (put your config file here)
cp /etc/bootsplash/default/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg /etc/bootsplash/personal/config/
rm /etc/bootsplash/default (remove default symbolic link)
ln -s /etc/bootsplash/personal /etc/bootsplash/default |
Then open /etc/bootsplash/personal/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg to edit the paths to images of your choice and also the area on your image that is used to display text. After this is done follow the remainder of the guide as normal. Make sure that your images are in jpeg format and of correct native resolution. The 'convert' command from imagemagick is quite useful; do 'man convert to find out more.
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postja
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:12 pm Post subject: Undefined mode |
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I'm having a wierd problem which I haven't seen described in this thread yet. I've followed the guide, but when I reboot and select the bootsplash entry in the grub boot menu it give me the following message:
| Quote: | You passed an undefined mode number.
Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, <SPACE> to continue or wait 30 secs |
If I wait the 30secs it just boots normally. If I his enter I get these video modes:
| Quote: | Video Adapter: VESA VGA
Mode: COLSxROWS
0 0F00 80X25
1 0F01 80X50
2 0F02 80X43
3 0F03 80X28
4 0F05 80X30
5 0F06 80X34
6 0F07 80X60
Enter mode number or 'scan': |
If I type 'scan' the screen goes black and presents me with the same menu with an extra option,
I've tried most of these modes, and when I select one it starts the boot process with much smaller fonts than I usually see, so I assume that it's working. But as soon as the boot process gets to runlevel 3 everything goes back to the default size (40 colums x 25 rows).
Here's the relevant portion of my grub.conf:
| Quote: | root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x317 vide0=vesa:1024x768
initrd=/boot/initrd-1024x768 |
Anyone have any ideas? |
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Cappy
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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I think I was misunderstood What I meant by this:
| Quote: | | One question though..... the boxed out border that automatically populates the screen ( the light border with the red Gentoo logo on the bottom right)... Is there anyway to eliminate that completely ??? I want to be able to make my own console templates with my own border. If so, how do I go about doing this? |
I fully understand how to swap out configs and images with my own, but by default, the image is "boxed out" out. I want to be able to create my own "boxed out" area where the text goes. The link you had to the bootsplash website had some info on the config file options, but it really didn't fully explain them.
Example of box I'm refering to:
Your Image
All is good though, after messing with some of the config parameters, I figured out how to remove that border.....by commenting out these lines....
| Code: | # text box (left, top)
#box 19 19 19 679 #313234
#box 19 19 1005 19 #313234
# (right, bottom)
#box 1005 19 1005 679 #eef4ff
#box 19 679 1005 679 #eef4ff
# box itself
#box noover 20 20 1004 678 #04045498 |
This way I can create my own images with a border style of my choosing, instead of the default white alpha channeled square.
I appreciate your reply, though
Cap
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scocou
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| postja wrote: | I'm having a wierd problem which I haven't seen described in this thread yet. I've followed the guide, but when I reboot and select the bootsplash entry in the grub boot menu it give me the following message | Code: | You passed an undefined mode number.
Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, <SPACE> to continue or wait 30 secs... |
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| Code: | | kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x317 vide0=vesa:1024x768 |
Where your kernel command line has specified vga=0x317 you must replace it with an acceptable mode, that is to your monitor/vga. I would back it down to 0x316 or up to 0x318 to see if that works. If it does work you can trial and error your way to the best one pretty quickly. In other words, don't just try one mode because sometimes they seem to not work. I found using <Ctrl><Alt><Del> then editing my kernel command line with GRUB to be pretty efficient at trying them all. |
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scocou
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Oh wait postja, I just found a problem...
| Code: | | kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x317 vide0=vesa:1024x768 |
You've spelled video with a number zero instead of the letter 'o' 
You may also want to put the video= argument before the vga= one, but I could just be a little anal there  , it might not matter... |
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pahud
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| is there bootsplash-640x480.cfg available? |
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anz
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| satis wrote: | | guero61 wrote: | What I said earlier:
What if it craps out at steps 9 _and_ 12 with a syntax error (text_x=256)? |
Try
| Code: | | /sbin/splash -s -f /etc/bootsplash/default/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg > /boot/initrd-1280x1024 |
(put /sbin/ in the beginning)
If it works you probably have an older version of splash installed (ie <v3) somewhere (/bin maybe?). |
Thanks - you guys are great - I have two versions of splash - one in the /bin/ (an older one from earlier bootsplash experiments) and the new one in the /sbin/
After normal "splash -s -f ..." the old splash in the /bin/ folder runs and executes with the syntax error.
If you run with "/sbin/splash ..." the new one will be activated - and that works
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pahud
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:10 am Post subject: |
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I've noticed that not all .jpg files are compatitable with splash.
When you splash again some jpeg file, the kernel complains
| Code: | | Looking for splash picture.... no good signature found. |
ideas? |
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Luke-Jr
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:58 am Post subject: Troubleshooting |
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When I try to use the regular GRUB splashimage *or* the bootsplash talked about in this HOWTO, my display blanks and doesn't work until (at least for the normal GRUB splash) the init gets to setting fonts...
My video card is a nVidia TNT2, but I'm only trying to use SVGA (800x600 64k) for the splash.
Anyone have any idea how I can get this to work?
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Cappy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks to everyone here....especially Narada for creating this tutorial . Because of all of you I got it all working great!! I just created a bootsplash image for myself (or anyone that would like to use it).
The question is.....does anyone know of any good, free file/web hosts ??? I'd like to post it, but my ISP doesn't have anything suitable for linking to images. Searching didn't really turn up anything interesting. If someone could point me in the right direction or suggest something....it would be greatly appreciated
Cap
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Narada
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Cappy wrote: | | The question is.....does anyone know of any good, free file/web hosts ??? I'd like to post it, but my ISP doesn't have anything suitable for linking to images. |
Hi Cappy. I'm not sure what you mean by 'suitable for linking to images' as that is a standard feature that any web host will allow. Choosing a web host depends on where you live. It is often better to choose a local host and that way payment is in local currency and speeds are better. Commercial internet only providers such as Tripod, Lycos, Geocities, FortuneCity to name a few may be global but have adverts and speeds are quite slow.
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Cappy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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Found one Here is my console with the FB image I just made:
Click Here
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Retired General
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 4:31 pm Post subject: hmm problem... |
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I'm using gentoo-sources-r3 and it works but the splash only appears at the end of the init process:
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*Starting local...
*Setting Console frame buffer images... [ok]
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The splash appears on all consoles but only after the init process has finished.
During kernel loading and init the frame buffer works but instead of the splash image "Larry the cow" logo appears. Is it normal? How can I change this?
uname -a output:
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Linux Wolverine 2.4.20-gentoo-r3 #1 Wed Apr 30 18:29:36 IDT 2003 i686 Pentium II
I (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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Video card is GeForce 4MX 440 with 64MB, X is using the latest Nvidia drivers (1.0.4363). |
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Narada
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 8:50 pm Post subject: Re: hmm problem... |
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| Retired General wrote: | | The splash appears on all consoles but only after the init process has finished. During kernel loading and init the frame buffer works but instead of the splash image "Larry the cow" logo appears. |
A problem with getting a blank framebuffer during the boot process can be narrowed down to either the initrd= parameter in grub.conf (which you should post here) and the initrd file in /boot. Check the grub.conf file for syntax errors and check that the initrd resolution is the same as that specified in vga=. Also, try removing and recreating the /boot/initrd file. Also, is the resolution you are using the highest native resolution of your monitor? An extreme solution is to try a different kernel. I have seen this problem with vanilla-sources-2.4.20 but not with gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2. Persist at it!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 9:44 pm Post subject: grub.conf |
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Here's my grub.conf:
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default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/gentoo-boot.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb3 video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x31A initrd=/boot/initrd-1280x1024
title=Windows 2000
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
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I'm using 1280x1024 which is not the highest resolution my monitor can display (max is: 1600x1200@75Hz). I don't know what you mean by native resolution, I have a CRT, but the recommended resolution by the manufacturer is 1280x1024@85Hz
I've also tried changing the /boot/initrd-1280x1024 but it had no effect. I've looked at the bootsplash script in /etc/init.d and there's a comment near the top that says it should be run after local which on my system it does. |
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Narada
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject: Re: grub.conf |
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| Retired General wrote: | Here's my grub.conf:
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hdb3 video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x31A initrd=/boot/initrd-1280x1024 |
Put initrd=/boot/initrd-1280x1024 on a new line after the kernel line.
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