On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 11:46, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 01 August 2004 20:00, Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Sunday 01 August 2004 10:59 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 01 August 2004 11:35 am, Doug B wrote:
Actually, I don't know for sure. I don't care whether I have a graphical boot or not. My 9.0 had a graphical boot. If I was sitting at the console during boot, I usually hit <F2>(or whatever it was) so I could see the detail. I just like to see if there are any slow spots or errors I may have missed before. My 9.1 install doesn't have a graphical boot, which is fine.
I too am amazed at how many people insist on having a graphical boot screen...
What do these people do, boot 5 times a day? And sit there and marvel at the wunnerful graphics? Since linux hardly ever needs booting, seems like a rather strange desire.
Bruce, I put together systems for people who could care less what happens during boot. Most of those people are windows users who really cant tell the difference between windows and linux except by what they see on the screen. Those same people, quite often, shutdown the computer when they have finished whatever it was they wanted to do. So Yes, they may reboot several times each day. They dont marvel at the graphics, they simply ignore it. Another reason I like to use the silent splashscreen feature for them is it results in less of my time trying to explain to them what all that boot stuff means.
For myself, I find the boot sequence, as it scrolls across the screen, distracting. Usually I dont really need to watch all that. When I need to see what happens I can press F2. So I would really like to find out how to make the splashscreen work on those machines where it doesn't. Surely there is someone who knows how it really works and will tell us their secret.
ra
These packages are needed:
bootsplash-theme-SuSE or bootsplash-theme-SuSE-Home bootsplash
I think these are not part of the 'Default' install.
There must be a vga=<size> as a kernel argument, where <size> is e.g. 0x31A (see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt, second table)
The initrd must have the splash picture appended. mkinitrd takes care of that. To append more than one splash picture for several resolutions, use the -s option:
mkinitrd -s '1280x1024 1400x1050 1600x1200'
Mind the quotes and spaces.
mkinitrd is also executed automatically after installing/upgrading the kernel. If you need more bootsplash pictures, then execute mkinitrd manually, specifying the desired resolutions.
Well I seem to have splash installed cat /proc/splash Splash screen v3.1.6-2004/03/31 (0x07, 1280x1024): on cwsiv@linux:~> ls /etc/init.d/sp* -lh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.0K 2004-04-05 18:50 /etc/init.d/splash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 617 2004-04-05 18:50 /etc/init.d/splash_early -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 707 2004-04-05 18:50 /etc/init.d/splash_late cwsiv@linux:~> cat /proc/splash Splash screen v3.1.6-2004/03/31 (0x07, 1280x1024): on cwsiv@linux:~> ls /sbin/sp* -lh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.4K 2004-04-05 18:50 /sbin/splash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11K 2004-04-05 18:50 /sbin/splash.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.8K 2004-04-05 18:50 /sbin/splashpbm cwsiv@linux:~> I dont have the sources so no /usr/src/linux/documentation/... what I get is a blue screen with a text box in the middle and of course its too early in boot to capture screen and I dont have a digital camera. I remember 8.2 having a nice graphic etc so I dont know If I installed the wrong one. If there are third party sources for nicer screens or the ability to use my own graphic that would work for me. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ / / / ___ \ | | \ / / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / _____| / / |_____/|_____| / | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | | _/ / \ | \ __/ __| \__/