Hi Folks, Yesterday I tried to rebuild my kernel to use gensplash, I followed the very good howto at [1] and opted to compile gensplash into the kernel using genkernel. I am not using the initramfs image stuff. Everything appeared to work just fine I get all that lovely eye-candy.
However when my system tried to start X & gnome it locked up. X did appear to start, the gnome splash screen appeared, but the icon for "starting metacity" never appeared. X locked up so badly that I couldn't drop back to the terminal via CTRL+ALT+F1, nor could I even kill it with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. I ended up having to ssh into the box to disable gnome and reboot the machine. I then edited my rc.conf so that I'd start a plain old X session. I rebooted, and everything worked just fine. I could even run gnome based applications (like evolution). So I'm starting to wonder if perhaps there is a conflict between metacity and gensplash? I still have that gensplash kernel available, so I can reproduce this at will, but I'm at a stand still. Can anyone offer any suggestions here - where should I start looking? Should I grab stack traces from X, metacity gnome-session or some other processes? I'd appreciate any ideas on how I should debug this from here. I should also mention that I'm running all this on a Dell d600 laptop, the kernel has been patched to use the radeonfb details of the patches that I applied are at [2]. any help suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance, --Frank [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash [2] http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/ -- [email protected] mailing list
