Bootsplash

As per my topic post, I am running SuSE on the following:

G3 B/W
196 MB of RAM
4 Gig EIDE - Primary
4 Gig SCSI - Secondary
ATI RAGE 128 (PCI) - 16MB of RAM, using the r128 driver for 3D acceleration in mode16

I have have splash enabled in /etc/sysconfig (and have checked the changes have been made by looking at the scripts myself.) I have also checked that the SuSE theme is where it should be.

I have tried appending to the yaboot
video=aty128fb
video=aty128fb splash=silent
video=aty128fb:1024x768-16@50 splash=silent
video=aty128fb:1024x768-16@50 splash=silent,theme=SuSE

video=r128
video=r128 splash=silent
video=r128:1024x768-16@50 splash=silent
video=r128:1024x768-16@50 splash=silent,theme=SuSE


And now I am out of ideas, anyone?
If you do have your bootsplash going can you post your yaboot.conf here please.

Cheers

Haven't got it to work yet, but I'm still looking at it

[EDIT] I noticed that in this file /boot/config-2.6.22.13-0.3-default there are no options under "Bootsplash configuration".

Wonder if that matters?

wanger

Haven't got it to work yet, but I'm still looking at it

[EDIT] I noticed that in this file /boot/config-2.6.22.13-0.3-default there are no options under "Bootsplash configuration".

Wonder if that matters?

wanger
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Its what I feared, bootsplash support has been removed from the PPC kernel, so I think its time to track down a dev and find out why. On the "Semi-good news" front, I decided to custom compile bootsplash support into the PPC kernel, using the bootsplash patch. It has been a harrowing experience, but I have a 95% working bootsplash, which segfaults just before KDM comes up. During shutdown it causes a system lock and the G3 wont turn off.

I am working on modifying the patch and will post the file here once I am done, and submit the patch to the devs as well.

Nice work TLP!

You're a better programmer than I am! I haven't managed to get anywhere with this problem.

Please fix it so I can stop dicking around with it all day! hahahaha!

Wanger

Nice work TLP!

You're a better programmer than I am! I haven't managed to get anywhere with this problem.

Please fix it so I can stop dicking around with it all day! hahahaha!

Wanger
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You'll be both pleased and displeased at this announcement.

Bootsplash is not being used in OpenSUSE 11.0, splashy will be the default, so my work on the modified patch has been scrapped in favour of installing splashy, which will be the new default. Splashy has some heinous problems on PPC, which I have found out, and with the help from some lovely peeps on the #splashy irc channel, am close to getting it to work.

Splashy in OpenSUSE is compiled into the initrd image, to be loaded up at boot. Unfortunately this does work on PPC for two reasons:

1. The script looks for /usr/sbin/resume
This is not present on PPC, it is now /usr/sbin/pc-utils-resume. We changed the path, and got 90% of splashy into the initrd, but the last problem is the biggy.

2. 64-bit libs on PPC 32 architecture.
I must admit this threw, and still does throw me, I dont know why 64-bit libs are part of a 32-bit PPC install? The problem goes, is that in order for splashy to be called at boot, the splashy binaries are dynamically linked into initrd (init script). The ldd command used to do this encounters 64-bit libs and goes bananas printing off cannot execute lalala-64-bit, it then continues on its marry way doing the rest of its job, but fails to link the splashy binaries. This results in no splashy.

To fix this I am emailing the splashy-setup.sh maintainer Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>

Wish me luck!!

Good luck TLP, I have also tried to get splashy to work without success. At least I know why now!

thanks for the info

wanger

Its what I feared, bootsplash support has been removed from the PPC kernel, so I think its time to track down a dev and find out why. On the "Semi-good news" front, I decided to custom compile bootsplash support into the PPC kernel, using the bootsplash patch. It has been a harrowing experience, but I have a 95% working bootsplash, which segfaults just before KDM comes up. During shutdown it causes a system lock and the G3 wont turn off.

I am working on modifying the patch and will post the file here once I am done, and submit the patch to the devs as well.
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I don't know. The last kernel I built for the PS3 (PPC64) had an option during "make menuconfig" for splash.
That was last week, and it was the most recent git file from kernel.org Not sure if that is what you refer to, but I did see it. h34r:

I don't know. The last kernel I built for the PS3 (PPC64) had an option during "make menuconfig" for splash.
That was last week, and it was the most recent git file from kernel.org Not sure if that is what you refer to, but I did see it. h34r:
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I have been using the suse kernels and kernel sources, not those from kernel.org.