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IcEonFirE
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 Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: Frame buffer splash does not work |
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Hi
I had reffered to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash to install ramebuffer splash I chose livecd-2007.0 as theme. When I issued the command splash_manager --theme=livecd-2007.0 --cmd=set --tty=1 it outputed :
Can't open /dev/fb0 or /dev/fb/0
Error: Theme 'livecd-2007.0' doesn't seem to provide a config file for the current resolution ().
I made sure that all necessary kernel (2.6.20-r options are present. here's also
the contents of grub.conf file:
title=Gentoo Linux (2.6.20-r
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.20-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda4 acpi=on apm=off splash=silent,fadein,theme=livecd-2007.0 quiet vga=778
CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/fbsplash-livecd-2007.0-1024x768
However, only console is apprearing, any suggestions please ?
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VinzC
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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What does zgrep '^CONFIG_FB' /proc/config.gz (or grep '^CONFIG_FB' /usr/src/linux/.config) tell you?
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IcEonFirE
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:55 am Post subject: |
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grep '^CONFIG_FB' /usr/src/linux/.config:
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA_STD=y
CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=y |
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VinzC
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:08 am Post subject: |
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Does /etc/init.d/splash start work actually? Have you tried vesa-tng?
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mikegpitt
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you ever solve this? I have this problem on some older machines. Exact same setup as other machines that work, which makes me think that it's caused by the hardware. |
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Drone4four
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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The guide IcEonFirE originally linked to is dead. Here is the updated link to the Gentoo wiki [How To] guide for getting fbsplash working.
| Code: | localhost # zgrep '^CONFIG_FB' /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_SYS_FILLRECT=m
CONFIG_FB_SYS_COPYAREA=m
CONFIG_FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT=m
CONFIG_FB_SYS_FOPS=m
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_FB_CON_DECOR=y
localhost # grep '^CONFIG_FB' /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_SYS_FILLRECT=m
CONFIG_FB_SYS_COPYAREA=m
CONFIG_FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT=m
CONFIG_FB_SYS_FOPS=m
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_FB_CON_DECOR=y
localhost splash # /etc/init.d/splash start
bash: /etc/init.d/splash: No such file or directory
localhost # exit
exit
drone4four@localhost ~ $
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The guide recommends you try out a theme before using it. The guide says: | Quote: | If you wish to set/preview a theme without booting you can use splash_manager.
| Code: | | splash_manager --theme=livecd-2007.0 --cmd=set --tty=1 |
This will change the theme on tty1 to livecd-2007.0. You can choose any theme in /etc/splash that matches your current resolution. Now to see the theme go to tty1 by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1. |
But, like IcEonFirE, I get an error message:
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localhost splash # splash_manager --theme=livecd-2007.0 --cmd=set --tty=1
Can't open /dev/fb0 or /dev/fb/0
Error: Theme 'livecd-2007.0' doesn't seem to provide a config file for the current resolution ().
localhost splash #
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How do I get fbsplash working?
Here are the contents of my /etc/splash/ directory:
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drone4four@localhost ~ $ su
Password:
localhost drone4four # cd /etc/splash/
localhost splash # ls
73labAllstar GeeXboX-Xmas Raziel
ASP Gentoo Redmond
ASPLinux Gentoo-Hornet Rojo
AquaMatrix Gentoo-LiveCD-2004.0 Rollmops
ArchLinux Gentoo-LiveCD-2004.1 Rustenguin
ArchPool Gentoo-LiveCD-2004.2 SMGL
ArchRelief Gentoo-LiveCD-2004.3 Shodan
AthlonXP Gentool Slack
Ayo GoGentooGo Slack-3D
BabyTux Ignite Slack-Black-Tux
Berry Jollix Slack-Blue
Black Juicy Slack-Glass
Burek Junior Slack-Gray
CCux Kanotix Slack-Gray-B
CLEE Keramik Slackware
CM KillBillTux-Grey Slackware2
CRUX KillBillTux-Yellow SlackwareLinux
CaixaMagica KnoppMyth Slide
Cargal KnoppixKDE Spinner
Compact KnoppixLT Stargate-Tux
Cybercity Konsole SuSE
Cynapses KuruminOrgBR SuSE-7.2
DangerGirl Leopard SuSE-7.3
Dark-0.1 Lila SuSE-8.0
Dark-2-0.2 Linux SuSE-8.1
DarkBlue Lunar SuSE-8.2
DebBlue MaiHoshino SuSE-Home
DebBlue-Gnome Mandrake-10.0 SuSE-SLES
DebBlue-Gnoppix Mandrake-9.2 SwirlPool
Debian Master ThinkLinux
Debian-Mist Matrix TuxInfo
Debian-Sarge Metal-Tosh TuxInfo-Connectiva
Debian-Tux MetallTux TuxInfo-Debian
Debian-Tux-Gnulinex Misspingus3 TuxInfo-Mandrake
Debian-Wave Misspingus4 TuxInfo-RedHat
Debian2 Momonga TuxInfo-Slackware
Debian3 Morphix TuxInfo-SuSE
Deflorist MyLittleTux TuxNTosh
DimmuBorgir MythTV TuxSplash
Dolphin NewFreepia Ubuntu
Dragon NewLinux UnitedLinux
ERPOSS3 NewLinux-Deb UrbanVisions-Debian
ElvinTooka NewTux UrbanVisions-Mandrake
Emergance NightWorld UrbanVisions-SuSE
Enterprise Notes VDR
Enterprise-spot OfficeDesktop Vortex
EvenNewerTux OpenSchool WarmAqua
FarCry OpenXchange Warty
Fedora PLF1 acKme
FedoraCore2 PLF2 dotf
Flower PLF5 emerge-world
Freepia Pativo emergence
FrozenBubble Pho gentoo
Frugalware Popcorn iRu
GANT PowerBook libertnl
GNU Psychotoxic livecd-2007.0
Galantine Pyro luxisri.ttf
GalaxySlack2 QiLinux-LiveCD-1.1 natural-gentoo
GeeXboX RH9 natural_gentoo
GeeXboX-Halloween RadiantStar
GeeXboX-OMC Ratatouille
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Gentoo developer Michał Januszewski seems to be an expert on fbsplash according to his website. I'll be sure to contact him if I don't get a response from the forum community in this thread. Here is a blog post by Michał Januszewski on his release of splashutils-1.5.4.
edit: added contents of splash directory
edit: added three sentences on Michał Januszewski
edit: grammar
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Drone4four
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| Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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I tried installing the gentoo splash theme chooser which I found at opendesktop.org. When I run gentoo_splash_chooser.py, I get this error: | Code: | drone4four@localhost ~/Desktop/gui 4 Mar/gentoo_splash_chooser-0.9/gentoo_splash
_chooser $ python gentoo_splash_chooser.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "gentoo_splash_chooser.py", line 2, in <module>
from qt import *
ImportError: No module named qt
drone4four@localhost ~/Desktop/gui 4 Mar/gentoo_splash_chooser-0.9/gentoo_splash
_chooser $ |
For the record, I have PyQt4 installed: | Code: | drone4four@localhost ~ $ emerge -s pyqt4
Searching...
[ Results for search key : pyqt4 ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* dev-python/PyQt4
Latest version available: 4.6.2
Latest version installed: 4.6.2
Size of files: 6,816 kB
Homepage: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyQt
Description: A set of Python bindings for the Qt toolkit
License: || ( GPL-2 GPL-3 )
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Drone4four
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:28 am Post subject: |
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I spoke to Michał "spock" Januszewski over e-mail. spock suggested I try fbset -i. Here it is:
| Code: | localhost drone4four # fbset -i
open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
localhost drone4four # exit
exit
drone4four@localhost ~ $ |
spock responded and said that that output means I don't have an active framebuffer device. spock said that I needed to append a vga=XXX to my kernel command in my grub.conf.
Therefore, in my grub.conf, I changed this:
| Code: | | kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda5 |
to this:
| Code: | | kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x318 |
spock referred me to kernel documentation for the vesafb at Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt for information on how to use vesafb, for example, how to change the resolution of the framebuffer.
I rebooted Gentoo and presto, vesafb was running at 1024x768! However, I still got an error message when running the splash_manager command:
| Code: | # splash_manager --theme=livecd-2007.0 --cmd=set --tty=2
/usr/bin/splash_manager: line 174: fbcondecor_ctl: command not found
/usr/bin/splash_manager: line 176: fbcondecor_ctl: command not found
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So I Googled “/usr/bin/splash_manager: line 174: fbcondecor_ctl: command not found”
and discovered this as a resource. As suggested there, I added
| Code: | | media-gfx/splashutils fbcondecor fbcondecor_ctl |
to the the contents of my /etc/portage/package.use file and then I ran
| Code: | emerge --newuse -1v splashutils
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Now
| Code: | | splash_manager --theme=livecd-2007.0 --cmd=set --tty=2 |
runs without a hitch.
Further, fbset -i now shows meaningful output:
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localhost # fbset -i
mode "1024x768-76"
# D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz
geometry 1024 768 1024 768 32
timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24
endmode
Frame buffer device information:
Name : VESA VGA
Address : 0xf5000000
Size : 6291456
Type : PACKED PIXELS
Visual : TRUECOLOR
XPanStep : 0
YPanStep : 0
YWrapStep : 0
LineLength : 4096
Accelerator : No
localhost # exit
drone4four@localhost ~ $
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spock said that if I wanted a framebuffer at a resolution at 1280 x 800 or 1920 x 1200 I should use the uvesafb driver in the Linux kernel. For more information on how to do that, there is this guide courtesy of spock and this Arch Linux resource. To install the uvesafb driver I'll have to compile a new genkernel. To do that I'll refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
edit: sp, formatting
edit: added 2 sentences on further resources for uvesafb
edit: grammar
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At least I got the splash_manager to run.