[Splashy-users] Getting Splashy running

Luis Mondesi lemsx1 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 02:51:41 UTC 2008


Please read the readme file.

You need as kernel arguments:
vga=791 splash ...

Modify your menu.lst

On Jun 16, 2008, at 11:41, Jonathan Dearborn <grimfang4 at hotmail.com>  
wrote:

>
> Hey,
>
> Here's what I get from /proc/fb and /proc/cmdline:
>
> $ cat /proc/fb
> 0 VESA VGA
> 1 VGA16 VGA
>
> $ cat /proc/cmdline
> auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=803 splash
>
> Any idea why Splashy isn't starting (see below for my original  
> message)?
>
> Jonny D
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:47:27 -0400
>> From: lemsx1 at gmail.com
>> To: grimfang4 at hotmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [Splashy-users] Getting Splashy running
>> CC: splashy-users at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Jonathan Dearborn <grimfang4 at hotmail.com 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I'm dual-booting Debian Etch on a Macbook with LILO and I'm having  
>> trouble getting Splashy to start.  I let Aptitude do its work from  
>> the unstable repository and I added 'vga=791' and 'append="quiet  
>> splash"' to /etc/lilo.conf.  I'm still getting an error message at  
>> boot that says (with an orange *) that to enable splashy on a  
>> multiuser runlevel, I need to add splash to my kernel's command  
>> line.  Is there something I'm missing?
>>
>> What do you get from:
>>
>> cat /proc/fb
>> cat /proc/cmdline
>>
>> ?
>>
>>
>> --
>> ----)(-----
>> Luis Mondesi
>> Maestro Debiano
>>
>
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