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miggols99

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 424

Installed Splashy... now weird lines on top of screen?

I recently installed Splashy, got it configured and working, but I have a problem. On the top of my screen there are a bunch of small lines which are really annoying. Is there any way to get rid of them? All I have changed is the daemons line (added splashy before kdm at the end) in /etc/rc.conf and edited the hooks line (added splashy at the end) in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst:

...
kernel (hd0,6)/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda6 rw quiet vga=791 splash
...

Also, Splashy won't work when I turn off the computer/restart. Why? Can anyone help me with this problem?

I'm using a ATI X300 card with the fglrx drivers if that helps. Here's an image of what I'm saying:

EDIT: Will it help if I post my xorg.conf?

# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg
# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg

Section "ServerLayout"

# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "gb"
    Option        "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "Microsoft"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option        "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option        "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "USB Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
    Option    "VerticalRefresh" "60-60"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option      "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
    Option      "KernelModuleParm" "agplock=0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection

Last edited by miggols99 (2007-07-24 13:02:45)

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eldarion

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From: Santarém - Portugal

Registered: 2006-08-01

Posts: 71

Re: Installed Splashy... now weird lines on top of screen?

Hi there,

I have the same problem. I dont know why, but i have noticed that when i run /sbin/splashy boot/shutdown/test this issue disappeared. So i edited /etc/rc.d/splashy and in the end of "start)" parameter i added the line:

# this will start splashy for 1 second and then it stops
/sbin/splashy shutdown 2> /dev/null && sleep 1 && killall splashy

so,  /etc/rc.d/splashy looks like this:

start)
(...)
/sbin/splashy_chvt ${CHVT_TTY} 2> /dev/null
/sbin/splashy shutdown 2> /dev/null && sleep 1 && killall splashy
(...)

I know, this is a very ugly "patch", but at least it works for me 

miggols99

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 424

Re: Installed Splashy... now weird lines on top of screen?

Works perfectly! Thanks

EDIT: Only problem is some error messages come up for a few seconds. Too fast to read. Is there any way I can find out what it says?

Last edited by miggols99 (2007-07-24 16:42:51)

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imachine

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From: /dev/ttyv0

Registered: 2006-11-15

Posts: 36

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Re: Installed Splashy... now weird lines on top of screen?

Well, now that splashy moved to using initscripts-splash it no longer works since there is no /etc/rc.d/splashy. But feel free to look through, I think what you'd be interested in is /sbin/splashy_wrapper.

It is indeed a very nasty 'hack' (can hardly even call it a hack).

Switching to console and back to X removes these lines.

I have an nvidia card (7600go) with the proprietary drivers, x86_64, so I doubt it's X/driver related. I think the fault here is splashy

I see you (miggols99) have already submitted something along the lines of a bug report. I think you might want to reconcider mentioning something more, like what distro you are running (Arch) what graphics card do you have etc.

I'll be posting soon in the same report thread on debian bug lists but I can't seem to login there for now.

For anyone else willing to drop a line there as well, experiecning similar problems, here's a link:

http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index. … tid=411690

Cheers!

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harlekin

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: Installed Splashy... now weird lines on top of screen?

I've got the same problem without having splashy installed. The lines appear after I've restarted X (the very first start of X is fine) and wont disappear until reboot.

I remember some update once fixed it for me, but some update broke it again. I'll take a closer look at this when I get home (this afternoon).

Last edited by harlekin (2007-09-17 08:19:22)

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