[Splashy-users] splashy and Graphics Card's native fb driver

[Vincenzo Ampolo]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 17:36 -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote:
> 
> 1. If i use vesafb and boot normally into my fluxbox manager, then when I do 
> a shutdown/restart my screen goes blank, that's why I said that my system is 
> not able to switch from X to framebuffer console mode. This is irrespective 
> of whether I splashy or not. This is some BIOS related problem. And 
> therefore in order to fix it I have to use the gxfb driver which is the 
> native driver for my Graphics Card.
> 
> 2.No I don;t see progress bar if I use the latest splashy with my gxfb 
> driver.  But the latest splashy works fine with vesafb but then I have 
> problems when I shutdown/restart my machine because the screen goes 
> blank(and I understand it is not related to splashy).
> 
> 3.That;s why I would like to use my gxfb driver with splashy with 1024x768 
> resolution during the boot (frambuffer console) which I am not able to. It 
> gives me errors like /dev/fb0 unwrittable as I mentioned in my first post. I 
> can only use gxfb with splashy at 640x480 and in that too the image is quite 
> distored and I can't see the progress bar(see point 1).

Probably the problem is related with the main library used by splashy
that does not work well with your driver (this is why 640*480 works and
1024*768 don't)

> 
> 4.Lastly to remind, I am having no problems with old splash_0.1.5 version 
> but i said before I would prefer to use the latest package.
> 
> 5. Also you suggested me to use the package from the unstable debian branch. 
> Well I can't use that because it requires libc6 and as I said before I am 
> using Sarge which does not libc6 version of C libraries. I don't want to 
> upgrade my system.

Since you don't want to upgrade your system i suggest you to use
splashy-0.1.5. Or if you still want to install the lastest splashy-0.1.8
you should compile it in sarge, with all the dependecies.
This means that you should build: splashy, libdirectfb and many other
packages. In this way you will get a fresh splashy package in a sarge
environment.

> 
> Hope this clears all the confusion.
It did :D
> 
> Once again, thanks for the help. Much appreciated.

Thanks to you for using splashy...
> 
> Kushal
> 
> 
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