Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-22 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Holly~ Maybe you can get this to work with this page... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Option_1:_Compiling_The_initramfs_Imag e_Directly_Into_The_Kernel There's a section somewhere in here that talks about that exact error. John D Thank you, John--

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Holly Bostick schreef: So why, when my grub.conf says kernel /vmlinuz ro quiet root=/dev/hda5 video=vesafb-tng:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose,fadein,theme:livecd-2005.1 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 clearly specifying more than 8bpp as instructed, is the splash failing to load because

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-20 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: Holly~ Maybe you can get this to work with this page... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Option_1:_Compiling_The_initramfs_Imag e_Directly_Into_The_Kernel There's a section somewhere in here that talks about that exact error. John D Thank you, John-- that is

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-20 Thread Nagatoro
Holly Bostick wrote: 1024x768). What happened was no change, but the message specifically said something about looking for 1280x1024.cfg... which wasn't right. Sound like the problem I'm having now... But mine wants a 800x600 one. The strange thing is that I've _never_ used that reslolution.

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-20 Thread Holly Bostick
John Dangler schreef: as to the mount problem, if it's not in fstab, what's in your mtab file? Well, it's in my mtab, but that doesn't tell me how it got mounted... does it? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 August 2005 22:21, Holly Bostick wrote: Now I just get the same message that I got previously with the verbose splash: no 8bb picture selected in config file (twice) could not find silent image. Haven't tried verbose yet as I've compiled this kernel 5 times today and I'd really

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-18 Thread Holly Bostick
Uwe Thiem schreef: On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-) snip Thank you very much, Uwe, but I simply cannot get the livecd themes to work. Adapting your

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-18 Thread Nagatoro
Holly Bostick wrote: None of it works. The images cannot be found. A shoot in the dark but I saw something regarding a default sym link in /etc/splash. If you have that try and delete it (think it was on the wiki page regading making your own splash theme) / HTH Naga --

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 August 2005 20:28, Holly Bostick wrote: Chris Cox schreef: I've never had any problems getting either livecd2005.0 or 2005.1 Would you share your grub.conf line, the listing of files in the /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/images directory, and the text of

RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread John Dangler
Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together John D -Original Message- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:22 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? On 16 August 2005 20:28

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Will do. Give me a day or two since I have to go through all the steps again my self to make sure there won't be typos or such. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-) Here it goes: 1. Cd to /etc/splash. Create a subdirectory with the name of your theme. That's sysex in my case because

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 15 August 2005 12:57 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Nagatoro schreef: John Dangler wrote: doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? From my /boot/grub/grub.conf --- kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\ video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Chris Cox schreef: On Monday 15 August 2005 12:57 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Nagatoro schreef: John Dangler wrote: doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? From my /boot/grub/grub.conf --- kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\ video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Cox
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 02:28 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: Chris Cox schreef: On Monday 15 August 2005 12:57 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Nagatoro schreef: John Dangler wrote: doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? From my /boot/grub/grub.conf --- kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: John Dangler wrote: doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? From my /boot/grub/grub.conf --- kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\ video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-15 Thread Nagatoro
Holly Bostick wrote: Nagatoro schreef: In my experience, the livecd theme (all versions) is broken. Silent gives me a kernel panic, verbose halts, unable to find the 8bpp pix. Try emergence. That one seems to work. Don't like it :) The only problem with this one is that sometimes (!) it

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread Joshua Armstrong
the vga= line contradicts the video= line. Try dropping the vga= argument. On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I setup my grub.conf so that I could see the splash screen on startup – but it doesn’t show. Did I miss something? grub.conf has “… vga=0x318

RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:28 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? the vga= line contradicts the video= line. Try dropping the vga= argument. On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: I setup my grub.conf so that I could see the splash

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread Nagatoro
John Dangler wrote: doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? From my /boot/grub/grub.conf --- kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\ video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,theme:livecd-2005.0 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 udev initrd (hd0,0)/splash ---