Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Boot splash

[Rasmus O. N. <ro...@ro...>]

Hi Daniel,

tor, 17 02 2005 kl. 14:07 -0600, skrev Daniel Ramaley:
> A few weeks ago someone linked to this page that displays a penguin with 
> a progress bar as the client boots, rather than the usual scrolling 
> messages: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/BootsplashPatch
> 
> Today i finally got around to trying it (on a DisklessWorkstations.com 
> Jammin 125). It sort of works. I did see the penguin, but not the 
> progress bar. What appeared on the screen was the upper left 640x480 
> chunk of the penguin boot image: a grey background with a large penguin 
> in the lower right corner (the very bottom of the penguin was cut off). 
> I know my hardware can do greater than 640x480 (i run X on the 
> terminals at 800x600), but that's the resolution the kernel seemed to 
> be using. Is there a way to set what resolution the splash screen uses? 
> Or even better, is there a way to just shrink the splash screen & 
> progress bar to 640x480 so it would work on all equipment?

Thanks for your feedback. I'm sorry it doesn't work for you. Keep in
mind that this is still experimental.
While I can't explain the exact problem you are seeing, I can tell you
that the bootsplash backgrounds atm only are included in the size
1024x768.

The bootsplash patch uses framebuffer. Perhaps you can't run framebuffer
on the client? If you are using pxe to boot the clients you can
experiment with different modes using the vga= parameter as described in
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/marcelo/linux-2.4/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
and the file you should modify is
/tftpboot/lts/2.4.26-ltsp-2/pxelinux.cfg/default

This probably won't get the bootsplash working, but if you get the
framebuffer running properly I can add bootsplash backgrounds in other
sizes later.

Regards
Rasmus Ory Nielsen