Gensplash/fbsplash for "Slackware-11"???
 

Hello fellow Slackers,
As you might have figured out by now, I am attempting to successfully install and configure splashutils, for the obvious reasons ;) . For me however, I am becoming more accustomed to using the console and little by little, I am straying further from my GUI. This of course is not to say that I'm abandoning my graphical desktop altogether, I just want to strengthen my command line skills as much as possible :cool: . With that said, I come to the matter at hand, "Frame Buffer Splash"...

I reinstalled Slackware-11 over my copy Slackware-Current(11_rc2) a couple of days ago. As ususal, I had no problems installing and seting up my box :) . I originally opted for the "huge26.s" kernel(linux-2.6.17.13), but shortly after that I decided to update my kernel to version "linux-2.6.18", as I said before, no problems. Then I decided to look into installing ~spock's "gensplash" and "splashutils", after having read that it can be installed on other distro's besides Gentoo.

So I followed the how-to on j79zlr's web page, and I've run into a couple of problems that I know of :confused: . When I shutdown to reboot, my console went black, so I switched consoles and then switched back (i.e. Alt+F2, Alt+F1). After I did that I got my screen back but at the bottom it read...My first obvious question is "why is this happening?", but a more specific question would be...
Why is the system looking for a "640x480.cfg" when I set it up to look for "1024x768.cfg"??? (Unless this may be due to a pre-exsisting condition?!?!?) So after I'm forced to do a hard shutdown, the reboot continues on to the Lilo prompt, where upon I hit enter for Slackware. At this point I'm met with yet another issue. After the screen reads "...Bios data check successful", I get a prompt which reads......Here again I'm a bit confused so in order for you my fellow Slackers to assist me through this obstacle, I will post my /etc/lilo.conf file ... To my knowledge, everything is where it is supposed to be, I followed the "How-To" to the tee. I even used, as the author recommends, his supplied "splashutils.tar.gz" file as well as his "splash_themes.tar.gz" file. If I've left anything out please let me know, your help is much appreciated, thanx...

That's because there is no 790.... :p Try 791

Also, I'm a little confused. Your specifying old-school bootsplash vga values but your also specifying vesafb-tng modes on the kernel line. Been a year or two since I used to run stuff like this but I would assume you should pick one or the other.

Not positive but I bet your supposed to use vesa-tng with gensplash seeing as how they are both by the same author. Could be wrong tho.

I like alot of things about vesa-tng so if I were you, I'd probably ditch the vga line, recompile my kernel with vesa-tng and then see what happens with your modes on the kernel line. Again, been awhile since I messed around with this stuff.

Forgive me for my ignorance but, as you can probably tell I'm a little green on the subject of bootsplash/ fbsplash and using it with Lilo on any other distro other than Gentoo.

Although it is assumed that any person trying to accomplish this should already know that, I believe that, as a formality, it sould be mentioned in the How To ;) . Anyway, enough bickering on my part, I'll be sure to omit that part of my /etc/lilo.conf whenever I add resolution parameters to my Kernel Append line, thanx... I'll post back with my progression :study: ....