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- Subject: Re: [proaudio] bootsplash
- From: Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:26:25 +0200
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It is solved, I removed both the logo and the nvida-fb from my kernel,
and all is working just fine now.
Cheers,
Dominique
> Le Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:07:48 +0200,
> Thomas Kuther <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:47:45 +0200
> > Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have a few question about the bootsplash in the overlay's kernel.
> > >
> > > Is it necessary to install the gentoo bootsplash package? It doesn't
> > > have the same kernel patch as the one in the overlay.
> > >
> > > With the kernel patch in the overlay, is it necessary to use an
> > > initrd as with the bootsplash package? If yes, can I use an initrd
> > > from the bootsplash package?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dominique
> > >
> >
> > (OT: back from the dead he is \o/ ... 42h/week work sucks!)
> >
> > It's fbsplash aka gensplash, not bootsplash - that's a big difference.
> > So you need the splashutils package in order to create an initrd and
> > use fbsplash. See gentoo-wiki on how to do it.
> > The patch in the overlay is the same as the one available in
> > gentoo-sources, just a bit fixed up for -rt.
> >
> > cheers
> > Tom
>
> I still have some problem with the picture. My video card is a nvidia,
> and I read somewhere at such card are not able at boot time to do other
> video modes as at 60 Hz. Vbetest find a few 65k colors modes at
> 1280x1024 and 1024x768 and even a 16M colors mode at 1024x768. But at
> boot time, I can only get a 256 color mode at 1280x1024. It is strange
> because vbetest don't even get this mode to work.
>
> So, I have done a few 256 colors silent png pics and a few 240 colors
> verbose png pics. The problem is at when booting with a silent splash,
> the pic is just nice, I switch to verbose and all is still fine, but
> when I get back to silent, the pic appear like polarized, the colors
> are not good anymore.
>
> I try both the vesafb and
> vesa-tng, it was worst with vesafb, so I switched back to vesa-tng.
>
> On http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49036, I read at I must not
> have the logo in my kernel configuration and I have it.
> This thread is quite old now, and the problem don't appear when I swith
> the VT, but when I switch the mode from verbose to silent with F2. So I
> am not sure.
>
> Is it something I can do or is it a bug with gensplash?
>
> Cheers,
> Dominique
>