Two 2.6 problems and a 2.6 bootsplash question.

Stu L Tissimus

Okay. First, the problems. First of all, I use love-sources-2.6.3-r1. But I've had these problems with other 2.6 kernels. Anyway, I have some annoying thing where, whenever I do apm --suspend, the machine doesn't recognize my USB mouse anymore. When I do cat /dev/usbmouse, nothing comes out when I move the mouse around.

Second problem is that, if I go into X and then exit it, or do ctrl+alt+f*, the console looks fucked up. I'll try to post a picture later. But it's in a small small resolution, and the text sorta overlaps the last line of text. I use VESA @ vga=791. This doesn't happen in 2.4.x.

And now, the question. Could somebody link me to a nice, easy to follow guide to using Bootsplash with 2.6? With the boot up screen?

Thanks, Stu.
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KingTaco · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:17 am Post subject:

Are you using a NVIDIA card? If you are, turn off RIVA TNT2 support in your kernel frambuffer menu. use the vesa one instead.
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Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject:

No, I am using a Neomagic 256<something><something>. (I tihnk the sometihng's are X's. It's a crappy card, trust me.
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stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

Hmm. I've never been able to get bootsplash going in 2.6, it just shows the penguin in the corner. (gentoo-dev-sources) I guess I need a new initrd since i never made a new one after the kernel upgrade.
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nordic bro · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 585

nordic bro · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 585

My mistake. I was seeing the same thing as you, created a new initrd and it didn't fix it. I remerged bootsplash-something-or-other, found a "m" setting for a kernel cfg item that req'd "y" for bootsplash and it's working again...

Mike

PrivatePanic · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:49 am Post subject:

Hmm. What kernel config option was that? The one you changed to "y" from "m"?
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