Daniel Drake a écrit : > Jimmy Jazz wrote: >> I'm using gensplash during the earlier boot process (initramfs) and >> before switching to the real root partition (switch_root). >> It behaves normally in silent mode, i mean i have the gentoo logo, the >> alt+F1 message and the vertical purple bar on the screen, right after >> the framebuffer (radeonfb) and vtcon are both activated. >> But issuing alt+F1 and switching to the verbose mode doesn't give me the >> vertical purple bar and therefore i'm not able to switch back in silent >> mode again. Alt+F1 key seems to become inactive. > > I think F2 is the keypress you are looking for. > > Daniel
Thank you for your reply. If i understood well F2 is managed from splash_util not splash_helper. Also, my config isn't really gentoo compliant (i don't use genkernel) and i would avoid the need of splash_util.static. I'm loading splash_helper from bzImage via initramfs archive to do the job. At this stage the alt+F1 key gives me the ability to switch to the verbose mode, have a look at the display to see what is going on (i'm kind of curious :) and switch back to the silent mode like i'm able with splash_util. The problem is, i cannot switch back to the silent mode until splash_util is loaded. I could say, the key Alt+F1 is not "bidirectional", in other words the display cannot go back to the precedent mode. Why should i need that ? In fact, i'm loading all the drivers as module and the process takes more time to be performed as it is if the drivers were compiled directly in the kernel or called from /sbin/rc script. The second issue is, i'm no more able to see the purple vertical bar at the right of the screen during the verbose mode. The screen only looks like as an usual tty. I'm quite sure, it was possible in the past. PS: I have tried splashutils 1.4 but it doesn't work for me. The screen stays black... until i press alt+f1 or F2. At first, i thought that could be the radeonfb driver, but it seems not. I didn't take too much time to look after it and i switched back to splashutils 1.3.1 for the moment. Jj -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
