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antipod
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I've done exactly what everyone has done now and I still can't get it to work.
This is how my grub looks like (well, I unmerged lilo and isntalled grub instead =):
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title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda4 video=mtrr,vesa:1024x768 vga=0x317
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I've tried some different configs, like vga=0x318, with or without @60 on the video line. What happens when it tries to boot from it is that the screen goes black while the computer loads some stuff (most likely the thing it should normally load), but then it just stops and the computer is ever black, or until I reboot.
I haven't inserted the initrd line yet because I want to boot and be able to cat /proc/splash first... or is that a mistake?
Help...! 
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allucid
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| you need the initrd line to see the bootsplash on reboot. i'm not sure that's why your screen is going black though, that sounds like another problem... |
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antipod
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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Yes I figured out that much I need the rdinit line to see the bootsplash since it contains the path to the image...
The strange part is that it's just black and no text is showing... just as if it was on silent. But then it should start to work when X is starting right?
hmm, this is strange... or it's just my usual luck! =)
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guero61
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds to me like you've set your resolution/refresh combo out of the sync range of your monitor. Try turning it down a bit and see what you can get. |
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antipod
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Well I can always try 800x600... but 1024x768 is this laptops max resolution, and it should work (I'm using it in X) mostly because that is what the live CD used.
The refreshrate could be a problem, men I had it at 60Hz, and that is not too much =)
Thanks for the reply anyway! |
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Arist
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| antipod wrote: | | The strange part is that it's just black and no text is showing... just as if it was on silent. |
This was happening to me until I realized I had forgotten to mount /boot before I copied my new bzImage there; I was booting with a kernel that didn't have the right support. Once I copied the new bzImage into the actual boot partition, it worked on the first reboot. Double-check that you haven't made any simple mistakes along those lines.
Also, I don't think I ever got a /proc/splash until the final boot where it all came together, so it's not a prerequisite to have this before you do the other steps. Just the dynamic application of the spash screens to the various consoles doesn't work. |
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antipod
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Sometimes I can just be sooooo stupid! Or, it's the age... I have to blame something.
When editing the grub config file I mounted /boot all the time but obviously not when copying the kernel to it. Thanks... it was nice to see a 1024x768 screen while booting up... =)
The strange thing is that the picture that is in that bootsplash/gentoo directory whatever showed up right before X started. And I don't have the initrd line in the grub config. Before that it was black with tux up top
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allucid
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| i believe the initrd line is to show the splash during boot (when all the text is scrolling by)... |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 8:20 pm Post subject: curious |
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| Has anybody had any success on applying this patch to the development-sources kernel (2.5.x)? |
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TheEternalVortex
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Does anyone know where I could get other images, besides the default one?
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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This also allowed my /proc/splash to work. Thanks!!!!!
My Boot Line:
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title=Gentoo Linux FB
root (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x317 video=vesa:1024x768@72
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doesn't work with ck-6, still doesn't have the /proc/splash |
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alphatronics
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| basquiat wrote: |
Apparently not, as I tried 0.6 with "splash=silent" and the Gentoo "Silent Splashscreen" showed up, but the area where the bar should progress stayed blank during the whole boot process, not showing any changes. Also all other consoles seem to be "blocked", not showing the normal splash screen after bootup, but the silent one, without any prompt.
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Exactly what I'm getting.  |
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alphatronics
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:07 am Post subject: |
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| I tried using the "Linux" configuration on the bootsplash site. It gives the same problems as the Gentoo configuration. |
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alphatronics
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:12 am Post subject: |
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I figured the problem might be in my grub.conf, since I don't see where else it could be (anyone see anything that would cause "no progress bar and consoles 2 through 6 broken"?):
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root (hd0,4)
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/bzImage-2420-r3 root=/dev/hda7 video=ywrap,mtrr,vesa:1024x768@75 vga=0x317 splash=silent
initrd=/initrd-1024x768 |
Oh, also: the 75 hz setting doesnt work for the bootup sequence, even though it works fine in X (The monitor supports it).
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Narada
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| alphatronics wrote: | | I figured the problem might be in my grub.conf, since I don't see where else it could be (anyone see anything that would cause "no progress bar and consoles 2 through 6 broken"?): |
Hey. Have a look at the problems section of the original post.
| alphatronics wrote: | | Oh, also: the 75 hz setting doesnt work for the bootup sequence, even though it works fine in X. |
It seems to me like the 'vesa:ResxRes@Hz' suffix on video= does not actually do anything at all. vga= controls resolution and depth and video= controls display features like ywrap and mtrr but I have never seen the ':ResxRes@Hz' usage on any official documentation. If anyone has more detail on this usage please post.
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alphatronics
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:20 am Post subject: |
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Fast reply. What about the other consoles? Are they also caused by this? |
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Narada
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| alphatronics wrote: | | Fast reply. What about the other consoles? Are they also caused by this? |
Try booting without splash=silent and if all consoles behave normally then it is the silent splash that is causing it. Currently, I'd suggest that people omit the splash parameter if they are having problems. Hopefully with future updates problems such as this one shall be resolved.
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charlieg
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Has anybody succeeded in getting this to work with the development-sources?
I tried running it against the development sources but the patches fail because either the files are non-existent, or have been updated.
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d3vlin
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| aardvark wrote: | | Hmmm , you don't need the "nVidia riva support" in your kernel even if you have a nvidia graphicscard. Actually, when you use the closed source nvidia-drivers, you should only use the VESA fb driver, or else you might get into trouble. |
You mean the trouble that the kernel won't boot as intended and the boot process nearly immediatley freezes? |
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Narada
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| D3vLiN wrote: | | You mean the trouble that the kernel won't boot as intended and the boot process nearly immediatley freezes? |
If you have nVidia Riva support enabled in kernel and are having problems then disable it and try again. Certain cards, especially mobile chipsets in my experience, can behave very strangely in the presence of this driver. The vesa driver should be sufficient to get all this working.
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alphatronics
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Using "splash=verbose" rather than "splash=silent" in grub.conf fixed my problem with consoles 2-6 not working. |
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Niko_K
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 3:44 pm Post subject: BIG Problem |
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Hi,
I've got a big problem with bootsplash.
It won't work on my machine, so I decided to find out why it doesn't work.
After some "Hardware Debugging" I today found out that bootsplash works with my configuration, but another Graphics Card.
I changed my GeForce4 Ti4200 with my old Elsa GeForce3 and ... it worked.
After some minutes of being helpless, I now believe that the problem is related to the Video-In/Out and TV-Out/In on my Gainward GeForce4.
Is there anything that I have to change in the kernel if I use a Graphic Card with Video-In/Out.
My GeForce3 has only got a TV-Out, but no TV-In & Video-In/Out.
Maybe there is also a problem with rivatv (but wait, no, the GeForce3 also worked with the same kernel and rivatv installed ... it stopped on loading the rivatv module, ubt thats ok, because there is no Video-In/Out on GeForce3)
Does anybody ha Bootsplash working on a GeForce4 with Video-In/Out?
Can somebody help me?
Niko
EDIT: I do have the same problem with Knoppix-Linux. On my Gentoo3 the boot works without any problems, but on GeForce4 with Video-In/Out Knoppix works, but I can't see any output on boot.
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carrett
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 3:56 pm Post subject: help! |
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i don't even see "Use splash screen instead of boot logo" as an option in my config...
it is under console drivers->fb support->Use splash screen instead of boot logo...right? i can't find it there.
got my logo working fine, but now i want a boot image!
2.4.20-ck-6
here's what i have under the fb support section of kernel config:
| Code: | │[*] Support for frame buffer devices (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > nVidia Riva support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > Cirrus Logic support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > Permedia2 support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > Permedia3 support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > Cyber2000 support
│ │[*] VESA VGA graphics console
│ │< > VGA 16-color graphics console
│ │< > Hercules mono graphics console (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > Matrox acceleration (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > ATI Mach64 display support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > ATI Radeon display support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > ATI Rage128 display support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > SIS acceleration (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > NeoMagic display support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > 3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 display support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (sst1) support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > Trident support (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │< > Virtual Frame Buffer support (ONLY FOR TESTING!) (EXPERIMENTAL)
│ │[ ] Advanced low level driver options
│ │[ ] Support only 8 pixels wide fonts
│ │[ ] Select compiled-in fonts |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | it is under console drivers->fb support->Use splash screen instead of boot logo...right? i can't find it there.
got my logo working fine, but now i want a boot image!
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I had this same problem yesterday when I upgrade gentoo-sources. The reason is there is something else left out of your kernel config.
Make sure that under Block Devices section you have enabled
Block Devices ->
[*] RAM disk support
[*] Loopback device support
[*] Initial RAM disk (initrd) support
After I enabled all these, I got the option to "use splash screen" under the console drivers section.
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Niko_K
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 4:14 pm Post subject: Patch |
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Have you patched your kernel by typing?
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