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Author:  arnljot [ Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:39 pm ]
Post subject:  bootsplash+nVidia+virtual console - It will not work
Spent an hour trying to get bootsplash&anim work with my nVidia FX5200 without killing the virtual concole.

When KnoppMyth is autoinstalled with bootsplash, pressing <ctrl>+<alt>+<f1> will give "random" results (wierd colors or black screen). Remember that <ctrl>+<alt>+<f7> will bring you back to X.

Disabeling bootsplash will make the virtual console work again.

So it seems that nVidia users must choose what they like moore :)

It says so in the script that adds the bootsplash(I didn't notice this before I searched hot to enable it again) - /usr/local/bin/add_bootsplash.sh
Code:
Note: BootSplash uses the framebuffer, if you have a video card w/ an
nVidia based chipset, the virtual console won't appears correctly.
Certain devices (VGA to component adapters), may not display the splash
at all.  If you have an issue, you can change vga=788 to vga=normal
in /etc/lilo.conf after which, you should run lilo -v


Researching the issue I found this helpfull list at linuxquestions.org:
Code:
The vga modes are:
hex:
| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 | 0x101 0x103 0x105 0x107
32k | 0x110 0x113 0x116 0x119
64k | 0x111 0x114 0x117 0x11A
16M | 0x112 0x115 0x118 0x11B

dec:
| 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 | 257 259 261 263
32k | 272 275 278 281
64k | 273 276 279 282
16M | 274 277 280 283

VESA:
Colors (depth) 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
---------------+-------+-------+--------+---------+---------
256 ( 8 bit)| 769 771 773 775 796
32,768 (15 bit)| 784 787 790 793 797
65,536 (16 bit)| 785 788 791 794 798
16.8M (24 bit)| 786 789 792 795 799


cheers!
Author:  cesman [ Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:06 pm ]
Post subject: 
What exactly is the hint or tip here?
Author:  arnljot [ Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:30 am ]
Post subject: 
cesman wrote:
What exactly is the hint or tip here?


If you search the forums you'll find that lots of people ask why they get a black screen or garbled display when they "ctrl-alt-f1".

I'll bet you a good portion of those people are running bootsplash on an nVidia card.

The only place it says that you won't get it to work is in the add_bootsplash.sh, and that's not a searchable source when you're googling ;)

No forum post or FAQ or piece of documentation anywhere hints that virtual console will not work on nVidia cards when you use bootsplash.

I think it's valuable to have such info available so that one doesn't spend lots of time to get it work when you can't.

If I'm wrong. That one can get this to work, then this post should be answered with the solution and the thread moved to another category :) Nothing would be better :)
Author:  AnusFace [ Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:12 pm ]
Post subject:  a-ha!
yes, thank you, this was driving me crazy
hmm well I suppose walking to the other room for console operations isn't too bad
I really like my bootsplash dolphins.. :]
Author:  Juppers [ Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:34 am ]
Post subject: 
There is a kernel patch that allows this to work, I haven't been able to get the kernel patch working yet though because I'm retarded when it comes to compiling kernels. If you google for vesafb-tng you will find more info.
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