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theguzz

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Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 26

[solved] Trouble with fbsplash daemon,

hello,

i got some trouble to get fbsplash working:

the screen gets completely black, no splash appears. When shutting down everythin is fine...

it seem to sth to do with the resolution or kms or sth... My dmesg says:

------------- snip -------------
fb: conflicting fb hw usage inteldrmfb vs EFI VGA - removing generic driver
fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
------------- snap ------------

here is my /etc/default/grub:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Arch Linux"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nologo fastboot quiet console=tty1 splash=silent,theme:arch-black-spin,fadein,fadeout"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="elevator=noop splash"

# Uncomment to enable Hidden Menu, and optionally hide the timeout count
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=5
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024x24

# Uncomment to allow the kernel use the same resolution used by grub
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

# Uncomment if you want GRUB to pass to the Linux kernel the old parameter 
# format "root=/dev/xxx" instead of "root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx" 
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment and set to the desired menu colors.  Used by normal and wallpaper 
# modes only.  Entries specified as foreground/background.
GRUB_COLOR_NORMAL="white/black"
GRUB_COLOR_HIGHLIGHT="light-cyan/blue"

# Uncomment one of them for the gfx desired, a image background or a gfxtheme
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/boot/grub/Archlinux-blue.jpg"
#GRUB_THEME="/path/to/gfxtheme"

# Uncomment to get a beep at GRUB start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

if you need further informaiton just tell me..

Last edited by theguzz (2010-12-18 18:05:46)

theguzz

Member

Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 26

Re: [solved] Trouble with fbsplash daemon,

ok solved this issue with:

------------- snip -------------
fb: conflicting fb hw usage inteldrmfb vs EFI VGA - removing generic driver
fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
------------- snap ------------

had to remove from /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

But I still get just a blank screen instead of a splash :-( But only when booting, shutting down is fine!

And in the end of the init-process it says:

fbsplash-extras: No fbsplash daemon running!

when it tries to stop the daemon. But why doesn int start? At the beginning of the boot sequence it says:

fbsplash-extras: using initcpio daemon

theguzz

Member

Registered: 2009-07-25

Posts: 26

Re: [solved] Trouble with fbsplash daemon,

Solved!

in /etc/conf.d/splash:
the wiki says that you can give the splash as:

arch-black-spin/1280x1024.cfg

removed the resolution and tadaaaaa, works!