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
. 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
. 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...
Code:
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
Can't open config file /etc/splash/Slackware/640x480.cfg
No 8bpp silent picture specified in the theme config
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
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...
Code:
You passed an undefined mode number
Press <RETURN> to see video modes available, <SPACE> to continue or wait 30 seconds
...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 ...
Code:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda
prompt
timeout = 300
vga = 790
# ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda2
label = Slackware
append="video=vesafb:1024x768-24@60,mtrr,ywrap splash=verbose,theme:Slackware CONSOLE=/dev/tty1"
read-only
initrd = /boot/fbsplash-Slackware-1024x768
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = WinXP
table = /dev/hda
# Windows bootable partition config ends
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...