[Splashy-devel] Bug#539239: grub2 deprecated vga=, splashy sort of needs it

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

Hi,

Something like this works for me:

--- .splashy.00	2009-04-18 21:41:24.000000000 +0200
+++ splashy	2009-11-25 23:41:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@
 		;;
 	    esac
 	done
+	# grub2 gfxmode?
+	[ "$FBMODESET" != "true" ] && [ -f /boot/grub/grub.cfg ] && \
+	grep -q "^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]*gfxmode=" /boot/grub/grub.cfg && \
+		FBMODESET="true"
 	[ "$SPLASH" = "true" -a "$FBMODESET" = "true" ] && ENABLE=1
 	[ "$SINGLE" = "true" ] && ENABLE=0
 



for grub2 to play nicely with splashy (or other such apps), we have to
"set gfxpayload=keep" as suggested elsewhere:

# diff -u /etc/grub.d/{.*,}00_header
--- /etc/grub.d/.old.00_header	2009-11-25 23:56:28.000000000 +0100
+++ /etc/grub.d/00_header	2009-11-25 23:50:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
     cat << EOF
 if loadfont `make_system_path_relative_to_its_root ${GRUB_FONT_PATH}` ; then
   set gfxmode=${GRUB_GFXMODE}
+  set gfxpayload=keep
   insmod gfxterm
   insmod ${GRUB_VIDEO_BACKEND}
   if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else


now if only grub2-config would use update-alternatives(8) to configure
05_debian_theme's theme file. One wouldn't need to sync the required
resolution to grub gfx, splashy and the desktop manually. Oh well ;)

HTH,