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Re: Bootsplash in Debian



Ainsi parla Damien Solley le 307ème jour de l'an 2003:

> Hello All
> I am trying to get a splash screen while booting into my Debian Sarge
> box. I found instructions at:
> http://bulmalug.net/impresion.phtml?nIdNoticia=1812
> and have followed them (almost) to the letter. The kernel has been
> patched, images and initrd in place, etc etc but I don't get a splash
> screen. No errors in dmesg, no problems booting, just no splash. I
> have followed the instructions as per the page apart from one
> seemingly minor detail: instead of booting with vga=791 as a kernel
> parameter, I boot with vga=773, which uses the same resolution but a
> lower colour depth(as my laptop only supports 1 MB video while
> booting). Are there any debian users who've had experience or success
> with bootsplash, perhaps following different instructions to these?
> Does anyone know if the vga= line could be my point-of-failure?

Perhaps your kernel lacks of support "VESA" fb driver. Check your
.config:

bash-2.05b$ grep FB /usr/src/linux/.config
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
CONFIG_FB=y
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CLGEN is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM3 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_INTEL is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set
# CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_SPLASHSCREEN=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS is not set

Also check you got such a message while you're booting:

vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xe080a000, size 1875k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=67
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:53a4
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0

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