Bootsplash & Gensplash now working: googled for days.

[artimador]

I'm running a dell optiplex gx150 with an intel 810 vid controler. I cannot get the framebuffer support to work. At least I think I can't. It seems that genkernel is working with gentoo-dev-sources(2.6.10-r4). I've tried with bootsplash, and splashutils. Heres are commands I'ved tried:

genkernel --gensplash=emergence all
genkernel --gensplash=emergence initrd
splash_geninitramfs -v -a /boot/initrd-2.6.10-gentoo-r4 -r 1280x1024 emergence
splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/fbsplash-emergence-1280x1024 -r 1024x768 emergence

grub looks like this at the end of my kernel string:

video=i810fb:hsync1=31.5:hsync2=48.5:vsync1=50:vsync2=70:xres=1280:yres=1024:mtrr:bpp=16

I've also tried using vesafb.
I've compiled all the framebuffer support I can find in the config menu and on google. I tried vesafb and vesafb-tng.

I don't get a splash screen nor an error that the kernel cannot fine /etc/splash/*
Although I do see a penguin that shows at the top.

Where do I go from here?
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Artimador

[donjuan]

I know you've said that you've Googled for days, but have you read the Gentoo wiki instructions for this?

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
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The Stage 1 on 3 Install

[artimador]

Yes actually, That was my last attempt two days ago. I will try it again from the begining, document my endevours and post the results here.
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[KOPV]

I also tried to set up splash following the instructions in the how-to mentioned.
Using splash_geninitramfs utility works fine. But together with genkernel a couple of things (for example hotplugging) do not work with this setup (because this is not the initrd generated by genkernel).
Using the gensplash option seems to work but there is a message

[Bob P]

i got it working with a dell optiplex and the i810 chipset. the settings i used are in the message base, if you want to search for them.