hello david, On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, David Härdeman wrote:
> On Wed, October 18, 2006 13:56, maximilian attems said: > > > the trouble is that all my usplash 0.4 tests were negative, > > i gave up 2-3 weeks ago, so i need to rebase and hope for the best. > > will do next days. > > FWIW, downloading the latest source, building a package and installing it > gives me a working usplash without having to do any changes. VT switching > and other problems that I've seen before seem to be gone. The only problem > that I'm currently seeing is that usplash starts too late in the > shutdown/reboot sequence (so you first see a number of "Shutting down > FOO..." before usplash kicks in for the last few seconds). > > What problems did you experience? no splash screen at all, just a screen + console blank. reproducible with latest usplash and linux-image 2.6.18 or 2.6.17. i'm a bit lost what the cause is, i know that it is not the vesafb, as this one would only kick in if you boot with vga=xxx. adding vgafb to the initramfs didn't cure my trouble with latest. nor changing the hook script to use the lowest possible image resolution. really no idea atm. -- maks
