Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-31 Thread bshlists
On August 31, 2005 04:02 am, Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 30 August 2005 16:31, bshlists wrote: > > On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > > > Afaik, it's not a change to a config file, it's a change in the way you > > > generate the initramfs. > > > > > > If you compile it into the kernel (i

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 August 2005 16:31, bshlists wrote: > On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Afaik, it's not a change to a config file, it's a change in the way you > > generate the initramfs. > > > > If you compile it into the kernel (instructions on the Wiki; see How-to > > fbsplash), it wil

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Tony Davison
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 15:51, Holly Bostick wrote: > bshlists schreef: > > Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get > > gensplash up and running. I however have one small problem the > > bootsplash come up some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. > > Now I remember seein

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
bshlists schreef: > On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>bshlists schreef: >> >>>Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up >>>and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up >>>some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread bshlists
On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > bshlists schreef: > > Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up > > and running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up > > some 1/3 the way through the bootup process. Now I remember seeing > > so

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread Holly Bostick
bshlists schreef: > Using all the suggestions on this thread I was able to get gensplash up and > running. I however have one small problem the bootsplash come up some 1/3 > the way through the bootup process. Now I remember seeing somewhere a change > to a config file which would change when

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-30 Thread bshlists
On August 23, 2005 04:25 am, Nagatoro wrote: > Hi, > > I've got another "interesting" problem with the splash. It seems like > no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600 > resolution. > > At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play > nicely):

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 August 2005 20:14, Holly Bostick wrote: Sorry, forgot this in my other posting. > Oh, and btw, Nagatoro... it's silly, but just open up your grub.conf > with nano and make sure that some word-wrap somewhere didn't mess up > your kernel line. That happened to me a couple of times, and in tha

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 August 2005 20:14, Holly Bostick wrote: > Matthias Krebs schreef: > > And as > > someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel > > parameter, so everything after it is ignored. > > In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added to the kernel > options by the fbspla

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Nagatoro
Holly Bostick wrote: wrap) will be ignored. So opening up the file with nano and going to the beginning of any apparently wrapped line and hitting Backspace to pull it all together is not a bad idea. Nope al in one line. On side note I found some fourum posting claming that agppart and nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthias Krebs schreef: > On 8/23/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Matthias Krebs schreef: >> >>>And as >>>someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel >>>parameter, so everything after it is ignored. >> >>In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Matthias Krebs
On 8/23/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthias Krebs schreef: > > And as > > someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel > > parameter, so everything after it is ignored. > > In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added to the kernel > options by th

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Nagatoro
Matthias Krebs wrote: Maybe you want to use a mode your graphic board doesn't support. Do a "cat /proc/fb0/modes" to get the modes your board supports. And as Well that's where it get weird! cat /proc/fb0/modes report that 800x600 *is* the highest resolution I can have but I've had 1280x1024

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthias Krebs schreef: > And as > someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel > parameter, so everything after it is ignored. In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added to the kernel options by the fbsplash patch which you get with the gentoo kernels, which is no

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Matthias Krebs
> Sorry didn't work. > The 8bpp message did dissapear but the framebuffer still want's to > read the config file for 800x600. > > -- > Naga Maybe you want to use a mode your graphic board doesn't support. Do a "cat /proc/fb0/modes" to get the modes your board supports. And as someone else mentione

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Yes... you see your kernel config for the default mode? It does not >> specify a bit depth. Neither did mine. Change the setting in the >> kernel to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (or whatever your preferred resolution is, thereby specifying a bit >> depth to

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Nagatoro
Holly Bostick wrote: Yes... you see your kernel config for the default mode? It does not specify a bit depth. Neither did mine. Change the setting in the kernel to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or whatever your preferred resolution is, thereby specifying a bit depth to the kernel config) recompile the kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Nagatoro
Michael Kintzios wrote: Did you re-emerge your splashutils and rerun genitramfs with /boot mounted? Also, did you check the resolution for your vesa-tng entry in the kernel menuconfig? (see Holly's previous post on this topic). Yes, unfortunaly no change. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Holly Bostick
Nagatoro schreef: > Hi, > > I've got another "interesting" problem with the splash. It seems like > no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600 > resolution. > > At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play > nicely): > --- > can't open config file

RE: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Nagatoro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 August 2005 13:23 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems > > > Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > > Try "video=vesafb:..." instea

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Nagatoro
Uwe Thiem wrote: Try "video=vesafb:..." instead of "vesafb-tng". Same thing... -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 August 2005 09:25, Nagatoro wrote: > Hi, > > I've got another "interesting" problem with the splash. It seems like > no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600 > resolution. > > At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play > nicely): > --- > c

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Nagatoro
Michael Kintzios wrote: Have you tried: [EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Same result I'm afraid :( -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Kintzios
> -Original Message- > From: Nagatoro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 August 2005 09:26 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] More splash problems > > But as you can see below i specify a 1280x1024 resolution in 16bpp > mode (same

[gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Nagatoro
Hi, I've got another "interesting" problem with the splash. It seems like no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600 resolution. At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play nicely): --- can't open config file /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/800x600.