[ltp] bootsplash on 2.6.5?

[René Castberg]

I found a new patch for bootsplash on the sf.net mail archive.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4188408&forum_id=
=36622
Although it doesn't seem to work for me, although this may have
something to do with my initrd.

Rene

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 20:59, André Wyrwa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> did anyone get bootsplash to work properly in 2.6.5?
> 
> I found a bootsplash 3.1.4 patch for 2.6.4 which gave a lot of rejects
> on 2.6.5. I made the neccessary changes manually.
> 
> Now if i boot into linux bootsplash doesn't get displayed, even though i
> have splash=silent in the kernel line and the kernel output holds the
> following lines...
> 
>  ...
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda8 rw hdc=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi
> hdf=ide-scsi idebus=66 vga=791 splash=silent mem=785856K
>  ...
> bootsplash: silent mode.
>  ...
> radeonfb: cannot map FB
> vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xf0814000, size 15168k
> vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9
> vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:9868
> vesafb: scrolling: redraw
> vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
> fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
>  ...
> 
> 
> The strange thing is that on shutdown it displays the bootsplash screen
> properly (at least it did on the last reboot).
> 
> The machine is a T23.
> 
> André.
>