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 -- .,p**"*=b_ Nicolas Rueff ?P" .__ `*b Montbéliard - France |P .d?'`&, 9| http://rueff.tuxfamily.org M: |} |- H' n.rueff@tuxfamily.org &| `#?_._oH' +33 6 77 64 44 80 `H. "`"`' GPG 0xDD44DAB4 `#?. ICQ 97700474 `^~. We are Debian. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/E/IT d- s:- a24>? C++ UL+++$ P++ L++++ !E W+++ N++ o? K- w-- !O M- V-- !PS !PE !Y PGP+++ t+ 5 X+ R* tv++ b++++ DI++ D++ G++ e+++ h r- y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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