On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 07:01 +0000, Gareth McClean wrote: > I'm stuck and I don't see what I am doing wrong. > > I want a splash screen, so I emerged splash and the 'gentoo' theme. I > configured a kernel and used genkernel to perform the build for me. > > I triple checked the kernel has the right framebuffer options, initrd > contains the requested theme and I am passing the parameters suggested by > genkernel using grub.conf. Yet all that happens is the display changes to a > higher resolution mode, but no logo, just normal boot messages. > > A livecd does show a boot logo, so I know vesa modes are supported by the h/w > platform. > > > Now I have read that two files 'splash_helper' and 'fbcondecor_helper' maybe > required in /sbin on the target system - can any one confirm if this is true? > > If so I have another problem since 'splash_helper' does not exist anywhere on > my build system (only a splash_functions). This is why I just did not tried > copying the files. > > > Anyone have any thoughts? > > > > G. > > PS, everything is built from the current portage tree as of about two days > ago.
Please don't hijack other peoples threads for reporting errors about what appears has nothing to do with embedded. -- [email protected] mailing list
