If you get an answer, please let me know!!! Isn't there somebody from SuSE who could let us in on the 'secret of the splash'???
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Nielsen [SMTP:tom@neuro-logic.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:26 PM To: Gerhard den Hollander Cc: Berge, Harry ten; SuSE general (E-mail) Subject: RE: [SLE] splash screen
I used the default kernel and had the rpms...also tried the vga=0x0317. I installed using the 7.3 Pro version and didn't compile my own since I don't know how to do it. The only difference was the CD/floppy. I've tried everything that people mention to get it to work and nothing happens.
I'm not about to reinstall to get it working either. I can live with it. Plus, it makes me look more impressive to my Windows buddies when they see all the text flying by the screen.
You name it, I've tried it.
Tom
-----Original Message----- From: Gerhard den Hollander [mailto:gerhard@jasongeo.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:40 AM To: Tom Nielsen Cc: Berge, Harry ten; SuSE general (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLE] splash screen
* Tom Nielsen <tom@neuro-logic.com> (Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:11:07AM -0800)
I've worked on this for months now and haven't come up with a solution.
I'd like some info also. It appears to me that if you don't set it up during installation, it won't work no matter what you do. I've tried every recommendation mentioned. I installed SuSe in 3 systems. Of the 3, 2 have the splash screen. Those 2 units were booted from the CD when I installed SuSe and the one that doesn't have the splash was booted from the floppy disk.
Strainge I know, but I've heard strainger.
1) make sure you use either a default suse kernel, or if you compiled your own, make sure to do a mkinitrd 2) make sure you have the relevant rpms installed [I forgot which, default and default with office both have it] 3) set the option vga=0x0317 in lilo.conf
WARNING: This may cause conflicts and or weird/shitty behaviour with certain video cards, esp. on laptops with Geforce2Go or ATI rage (8Mb version) Also causes sever conflicts w. Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti 500 boards
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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Berge, Harry ten wrote: hb> If you get an answer, please let me know!!! hb> hb> Isn't there somebody from SuSE who could let us in on the 'secret of the hb> splash'??? hb> The following site explains how to disable it but looking at the document will explain how to enable it as well. http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/cstein_nosplash.html Problem is, I know mine is configured right, I even have another computer to compare it with. My suspicions are that the kernel (in my case the 2.4.16) wasn't compile to allow the splash screen. I can boot back up with the 2.4.4 kernel that came with SuSE 7.2 and the splash screen works fine, but the 2.4.16 kernel from SuSE's upgrade/kernel directory doesn not. hb> > From: Tom Nielsen [SMTP:tom@neuro-logic.com] hb> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:26 PM hb> > hb> > I used the default kernel and had the rpms...also tried the vga=0x0317. I hb> > installed using the 7.3 Pro version and didn't compile my own since I hb> > don't hb> > know how to do it. The only difference was the CD/floppy. I've tried hb> > everything that people mention to get it to work and nothing happens. hb> > hb> > I'm not about to reinstall to get it working either. I can live with it. hb> > Plus, it makes me look more impressive to my Windows buddies when they see hb> > all the text flying by the screen. hb> > hb> > You name it, I've tried it. hb> > hb> > Tom hb> > hb> > hb> hb> -- S.Toms - smotrs at mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs SuSE Linux v6.3 - Kernel 2.2.14 Truthful, adj.: Dumb and illiterate. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
it's been awhile since i messed with compiling my 2.4.16 kernel with some local mods on 7.3... but doesn't the splash screen go into the initrd config stuff? seems that's where i put it... kenb
The following site explains how to disable it but looking at the document will explain how to enable it as well.
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/cstein_nosplash.html
Problem is, I know mine is configured right, I even have another computer to compare it with. My suspicions are that the kernel (in my case the 2.4.16) wasn't compile to allow the splash screen. I can boot back up with the 2.4.4 kernel that came with SuSE 7.2 and the splash screen works fine, but the 2.4.16 kernel from SuSE's upgrade/kernel directory doesn not.
document will explain how to enable it as well.
this mentions only 7.3 i am using 7.2
On Saturday 02 March 2002 02:13, S.Toms wrote:
Problem is, I know mine is configured right, I even have another computer to compare it with. My suspicions are that the kernel (in my case the 2.4.16) wasn't compile to allow the splash screen. I can boot back up with the 2.4.4 kernel that came with SuSE 7.2 and the splash screen works fine, but the 2.4.16 kernel from SuSE's upgrade/kernel directory doesn not.
You can always check with zgrep SPLASH /proc/config.gz On my system I get CONFIG_FBCON_SPLASHSCREEN=y You should also check the setting for the version of framebuffer you're using zgrep FB /proc/config.gz will give you the current status. Incidentally, I'm running 2.4.16 from the official update directory for 7.3. Are the kernels really different between suse versions? I can't see why they should be. //Anders
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 02:23:25 +0100 Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 02:13, S.Toms wrote:
Problem is, I know mine is configured right, I even have another computer to compare it with. My suspicions are that the kernel (in my case the 2.4.16) wasn't compile to allow the splash screen. I can boot back up with the 2.4.4 kernel that came with SuSE 7.2 and the splash screen works fine, but the 2.4.16 kernel from SuSE's upgrade/kernel directory doesn not.
You can always check with
zgrep SPLASH /proc/config.gz
On my system I get
CONFIG_FBCON_SPLASHSCREEN=y
You should also check the setting for the version of framebuffer you're using
zgrep FB /proc/config.gz will give you the current status.
Incidentally, I'm running 2.4.16 from the official update directory for 7.3. Are the kernels really different between suse versions? I can't see why they should be.
looks ok hereCONFIG_FBCON_SPLASHSCREEN=y what is this BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD CONFIG_FBCON_SPLASHSCREEN=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_RIVA=m CONFIG_FB_CLGEN=m CONFIG_FB_PM2=m CONFIG_FB_PM2_FIFO_DISCONNECT=y CONFIG_FB_PM2_PCI=y CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000=m CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_FB_VGA16=m CONFIG_FB_HGA=m CONFIG_FB_MATROX=m CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX_I2C=m CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MAVEN=m CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G450=m CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD=y CONFIG_FB_ATY=m CONFIG_FB_ATY_GX=y CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m CONFIG_FB_ATY128=m CONFIG_FB_SIS=m CONFIG_FB_SIS_300=y CONFIG_FB_SIS_315=y CONFIG_FB_3DFX=m CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1=m # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set CONFIG_FBCON_SPLASHSCREEN=y CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y CONFIG_FBCON_MFB=m CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2=m CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4=m CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y CONFIG_FBCON_AFB=m CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM=m CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2=m CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4=m CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8=m CONFIG_FBCON_MAC=m CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES=m CONFIG_FBCON_VGA=m CONFIG_FBCON_HGA=m # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 02:23:25 +0100 Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 02:13, S.Toms wrote:
Problem is, I know mine is configured right, I even have another computer to compare it with. My suspicions are that the kernel (in my case the 2.4.16) wasn't compile to allow the splash screen. I can boot back up with the 2.4.4 kernel that came with SuSE 7.2 and the splash screen works fine, but the 2.4.16 kernel from SuSE's upgrade/kernel directory doesn not.
You can always check with
zgrep SPLASH /proc/config.gz
On my system I get
CONFIG_FBCON_SPLASHSCREEN=y
what is your output for cat /proc/fb
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:36, Landy Roman wrote:
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 03:31:10 +0100
Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:19, Landy Roman wrote:
what is your output for cat /proc/fb
0 VESA VGA
me too; i give up
1. Do you get the penguin in the upper left corner? If you do then the framebuffer graphics work in the kernel and is turned on in lilo. 2. If you don't get the penguin, do you have the proper vga= setting in lilo.conf, and did you rerun lilo after you changed lilo.conf. 3. If you do get the penguin, did you create the initrd file? Do you have the package splashanim.rpm (someone with 7.2 installed can verify what the package name is there. This is what it's called in 7.3). Do you have the initrd you created listed in lilo.conf? Did you rerun lilo after creating the initrd or changing lilo.conf? If all this checks out it should work as intended. //Anders
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:38, Anders Johansson wrote:
and did you rerun lilo after you changed lilo.conf.
One more thing to note here. Check the setting in lilo.conf on where it's writing. One annoying bug in 7.2 is that sometimes yast (or suseconfig) changes lilo.conf to write to the /boot partition instead of the MBR. If all you change is the vga= setting or something and don't change the actual files in /boot everything will boot correctly, but your settings won't take effect and it can be (was for me) a real PITA to track down. //Anders
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 03:38:53 +0100 Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:36, Landy Roman wrote:
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 03:31:10 +0100
Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:19, Landy Roman wrote:
what is your output for cat /proc/fb
0 VESA VGA
me too; i give up
1. Do you get the penguin in the upper left corner? If you do then the framebuffer graphics work in the kernel and is turned on in lilo.
yes
2. If you don't get the penguin, do you have the proper vga= setting in lilo.conf, and did you rerun lilo after you changed lilo.conf.
yes 791 and i also tried 771
3. If you do get the penguin,
did you create the initrd file? i tried running mk_initrd and failed Do you have the
package splashanim.rpm no
(someone with 7.2 installed can verify what the the point it before upgrading kernel it was working
package name is there. This is what it's called in 7.3). Do you have the initrd you created listed in lilo.conf? Did you rerun lilo after creating the initrd or changing lilo.conf?
yes
If all this checks out it should work as intended.
well is not
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:50, Landy Roman wrote:
i tried running mk_initrd and failed
Well mk_initrd is really an essential step in the boot splash thingy. If it fails I'm not really all that surprised you don't get the graphics. Did you get any error messages or anything? //Anders
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 03:50:32 +0100 Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:50, Landy Roman wrote:
i tried running mk_initrd and failed
Well mk_initrd is really an essential step in the boot splash thingy. If it fails I'm not really all that surprised you don't get the graphics.
Did you get any error messages or anything?
using "/dev/hda3" as root device (mounted on "/") no initrd required rmdir: too few arguments Try `rmdir --help' for more information.
that's your problem. the graphics for the splash screen are in the initrd file. you need to read up on initrd some and recreate it. more specifically, you'll have the graphics files somewhere on your system and these will be copied into the initrd file when you make it. try a man initrd or mkinitrd... it's been awhile and i'm away from my system right now. kenb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Landy Roman" <landy@despiertapr.com> To: "Anders Johansson" <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> Cc: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] RE: splash screen
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 03:50:32 +0100 Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:50, Landy Roman wrote:
i tried running mk_initrd and failed
Well mk_initrd is really an essential step in the boot splash thingy. If it fails I'm not really all that surprised you don't get the graphics.
Did you get any error messages or anything?
using "/dev/hda3" as root device (mounted on "/") no initrd required rmdir: too few arguments Try `rmdir --help' for more information.
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On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:55, Landy Roman wrote:
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 03:50:32 +0100
Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:50, Landy Roman wrote:
i tried running mk_initrd and failed
Well mk_initrd is really an essential step in the boot splash thingy. If it fails I'm not really all that surprised you don't get the graphics.
Did you get any error messages or anything?
using "/dev/hda3" as root device (mounted on "/") no initrd required rmdir: too few arguments Try `rmdir --help' for more information.
OK, perhaps there's a bug in mk_initrd in 7.2 that causes it to not build when there aren't any modules listed, even when it should add a boot splash. Try add a module (say reiserfs) to INITRD_MODULES in /etc/rc.config, run mk_initrd, make sure it's entered into lilo.conf, run lilo and reboot. //Anders
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 04:00:06 +0100 Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:55, Landy Roman wrote:
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 03:50:32 +0100
Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 03:50, Landy Roman wrote:
i tried running mk_initrd and failed
Well mk_initrd is really an essential step in the boot splash thingy. If it fails I'm not really all that surprised you don't get the graphics.
Did you get any error messages or anything?
using "/dev/hda3" as root device (mounted on "/") no initrd required rmdir: too few arguments Try `rmdir --help' for more information.
OK, perhaps there's a bug in mk_initrd in 7.2 that causes it to not build when there aren't any modules listed, even when it should add a boot splash.
Try add a module (say reiserfs) to INITRD_MODULES in /etc/rc.config, run mk_initrd, make sure it's entered into lilo.conf, run lilo and reboot.
this created /boot/initrd but still dont have the splash screen here is my lilo.conf # LILO configuration file # Start LILO global Section # If you want to prevent console users to boot with init=/bin/bash, # restrict usage of boot params by setting a passwd and using the option # restricted. #password=bootpwd #restricted append="BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz" boot=/dev/fd0 #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. lba32 vga=791 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=Wg:kw:Wg:Wg read-only prompt timeout=80 # End LILO global Section # image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda3 label = linux initrd = /boot/initrd # image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse root = /dev/hda3 label = suse initrd = /boot/initrd optional # other = /dev/hda1 label = windows table = /dev/hda # image = /boot/memtest.bin label = memtest86
On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:18, Landy Roman wrote:
this created /boot/initrd but still dont have the splash screen
Great, we're halfway there. Now you need the package with the pictures. In 7.3 it's called splashanim.rpm. If that isn't on the cds perhaps someone with 7.2 can say what it's called there. When you run initrd it should say something like "appending images from /usr/local/splash" As a side note, I suspect the reason it worked before the upgrade is precisely because mk_initrd didn't create anything. You got the default ramdisk and that had the images in it. After the upgrade you have to create a new and then you need the package with the images. //Anders
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 04:20:24 +0100 Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:18, Landy Roman wrote:
this created /boot/initrd but still dont have the splash screen
Great, we're halfway there. Now you need the package with the pictures. In 7.3 it's called splashanim.rpm. If that isn't on the cds perhaps someone with 7.2
dont see anything in 7.2 with that name nor similar ???? will the one for 7.3 work if so in what dir is it so i can get it from the ftp site
can say what it's called there. When you run initrd it should say something like "appending images from /usr/local/splash"
As a side note, I suspect the reason it worked before the upgrade is precisely because mk_initrd didn't create anything. You got the default ramdisk and that had the images in it. After the upgrade you have to create a new and then you need the package with the images.
//Anders
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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:31:33 -0500 (EST) Landy Roman <landy@despiertapr.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 04:20:24 +0100 Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:18, Landy Roman wrote:
this created /boot/initrd but still dont have the splash screen
Great, we're halfway there. Now you need the package with the pictures. In 7.3 it's called splashanim.rpm. If that isn't on the cds perhaps someone with 7.2
dont see anything in 7.2 with that name nor similar ????
will the one for 7.3 work if so in what dir is it so i can get it from the ftp site
i tried using the one for 7.3 spalshanim.rpm but no luck, i did not see appending images to initrd as you said; however i saw something like rc_splash no found during boot
can say what it's called there. When you run initrd it should say something like "appending images from /usr/local/splash"
As a side note, I suspect the reason it worked before the upgrade is precisely because mk_initrd didn't create anything. You got the default ramdisk and that had the images in it. After the upgrade you have to create a new and then you need the package with the images.
//Anders
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On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:41, Landy Roman wrote:
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:31:33 -0500 (EST) i tried using the one for 7.3 spalshanim.rpm but no luck, i did not see appending images to initrd as you said; however i saw something like rc_splash no found during boot
OK, I'm sorry. It's been too long since I messed with 7.2. I just looked at the mk_initrd script from my 7.2 DVD, and there's nothing there about boot splash images. This is how it's done in 7.3, but in 7.2 it seems it's compiled into the kernel directly. Perhaps there's something the kernel builders forgot when they compiled for 7.2?! I don't know. //Anders
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 04:53:54 +0100 Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:41, Landy Roman wrote:
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:31:33 -0500 (EST) i tried using the one for 7.3 spalshanim.rpm but no luck, i did not see appending images to initrd as you said; however i saw something like rc_splash no found during boot
OK, I'm sorry. It's been too long since I messed with 7.2. I just looked at the mk_initrd script from my 7.2 DVD, and there's nothing there about boot splash images. This is how it's done in 7.3, but in 7.2 it seems it's compiled into the kernel directly.
Perhaps there's something the kernel builders forgot when they compiled for 7.2?! I don't know.
agree, now i really give up ;-) i'll wait to version 8.0 :-) i guess
Ok Using a Matrox G450 I was able to add vga = 788 to lilo.conf ran mk_initrd showed it installed the splash, and it shows.... NOW for the problem, once X boots, I loose all virtual terminals Ctrl-Alt-F1 to F6 I get a blank screen... Nothing at all on ANY virtual term except XFree86... Any ideas? Rob On 01 Mar 2002 22:59:16 -0500, Landy Roman wrote:
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 04:53:54 +0100 Anders Johansson <andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net> wrote:
On Saturday 02 March 2002 04:41, Landy Roman wrote:
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:31:33 -0500 (EST) i tried using the one for 7.3 spalshanim.rpm but no luck, i did not see appending images to initrd as you said; however i saw something like rc_splash no found during boot
OK, I'm sorry. It's been too long since I messed with 7.2. I just looked at the mk_initrd script from my 7.2 DVD, and there's nothing there about boot splash images. This is how it's done in 7.3, but in 7.2 it seems it's compiled into the kernel directly.
Perhaps there's something the kernel builders forgot when they compiled for 7.2?! I don't know.
agree, now i really give up ;-) i'll wait to version 8.0 :-) i guess
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On 02 Mar 2002 15:15:50 -0500 Phantasm <phantasm@textbox.net> wrote:
Ok
Using a Matrox G450 I was able to add vga = 788 to lilo.conf ran mk_initrd showed it installed the splash, and it shows....
NOW for the problem, once X boots, I loose all virtual terminals Ctrl-Alt-F1 to F6 I get a blank screen... Nothing at all on ANY virtual
let me guess; you are using version 7.3
Yeah 7.3 is the version... Now just to figure out why all terms are blanked :/ I wish I had a 7.2 version to play with and test out... One real silly question, are you using Personal or Professional? Rob On 02 Mar 2002 15:37:13 -0500, Landy Roman wrote:
On 02 Mar 2002 15:15:50 -0500 Phantasm <phantasm@textbox.net> wrote:
Ok
Using a Matrox G450 I was able to add vga = 788 to lilo.conf ran mk_initrd showed it installed the splash, and it shows....
NOW for the problem, once X boots, I loose all virtual terminals Ctrl-Alt-F1 to F6 I get a blank screen... Nothing at all on ANY virtual
let me guess; you are using version 7.3
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On 02 Mar 2002 23:42:23 -0500 Phantasm <phantasm@textbox.net> wrote:
Yeah 7.3 is the version...
Now just to figure out why all terms are blanked :/
I wish I had a 7.2 version to play with and test out...
One real silly question, are you using Personal or Professional?
pro, but it should be the same
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