On Sunday 10 July 2005 18:39, Manuel McLure wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > "verbose mode" of fbsplash doesn't seem to work any more. If I press F2 > > during the boot process or switch to a text console after booting the > > background is black instead of showing my specified picture. Same > > behaviour for the themes emergence, gentoo and my own one. I skipped a > > couple of kernels, so I am not too sure when it started. Current kernel > > is 2.6.12-r4. > > If you switch to 2.6.12 from 2.6.11 you will need to remerge splashutils > and rebuild your bootsplash ramdisk, since the splash protocol has > changed. I saw the same problem with 2.6.12. The new splashutils ebuild > has the following to say: > > * If you upgrade your kernel from pre-2.6.12 to 2.6.12 or higher, > please * make sure that you remerge this package and rebuild your initrds. > You * can use the splash_geninitramfs script to do that.
Still no joy. Same behaviour as before. :-( Actually, I wouldn't give a rat's ass for it but this is for a customer, and looks are important. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
