Bug 135685 – Entering KDE won't flush the screen, showing pieces of my framebuffer splash

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paulo 2006-06-05 15:16:50 UTC]

I will attach a screenshot to show what I mean. I had Gentoo 2006.0 with GCC 4.1.1 and Glibc 2.4 up and running when I decided to install gensplash and enable it. It works smoothly, except for the fact that whenever I turn on the computer, it will always behave as the screenshot shows. Actually, it first shows the desktop as it should, and then will draw that piece of my splashscreen on the border of the screen. My KDM is set up to automatically log in with my username.

Here's emerge --info:

Portage 2.1_rc4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -msse2 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -msse2 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/"
LANG="pt_BR"
LC_ALL="pt_BR"
LINGUAS="pt_BR"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 16bit 3dnow 3dnowext X acpi alsa amarok apm arts artswrappersuid asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cdinstall cdrom cli cpudetection css cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode epson esd fat fbcon ffmpeg firefox foomaticdb fortran fuse gdbm gif gimpprint glut glx gmail gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal id3 imagemagick imlib insecure-savers isdnlog java jpeg kde kqemu lame lcms libg++ libvisual libwww linguas_pt_BR lm_sensors logrotate mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn msnextras musicbrainz ncurses nfs nls no-old-linux nocd nogg nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs offensive ogg opengl oss pam pascal pcre pda pdf pdflib perl png pnp ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline real reflection reiser4 reiserfs samba sblive scp sdl session spell spl sse sse-filters sse2 ssl subtitles swat symlink tcpd transcode truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vcdimager visualization vorbis wifi win32codecs wma wma123 xine xml xmms xorg xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zip zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Paulo 2006-06-05 15:17:44 UTC]

Created attachment 88477 [details]
Here you can see the problem

[Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-06-05 15:32:25 UTC]

I'm not sure which software causes this, I do see this problem on PPC with gensplash and radeon driver, but not only with KDE.

CCing x11 for possibly relation to driver, CCing spock for possible relation with gensplash.

[Comment 3 Paulo 2006-06-05 15:38:54 UTC]

I forgot to say that I'm using Mesa-CVS driver for my radeon, as explained at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-374745-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-radeon+dri-start-0.html

[Comment 4 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-06-05 20:44:24 UTC]

Which framebuffer driver are you using?

[Comment 5 Paulo 2006-06-06 08:37:33 UTC]

Radeonfb... This rings a bell... I'll try another today and say whether it solves the problem...

[Comment 6 Paulo 2006-06-07 07:42:50 UTC]

Now I changed it to boot using vesafb, and it won't mess up with my KDE, but won't show the background on the terminals either... It'll only change the terminal's resolution to 1280x1024 as radeonfb did. Just the eye candy is missing, and I don't know whether it's the splash's background fault or radeonfb's fault...

[Comment 7 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-06-11 09:18:43 UTC]

Make sure your gensplash/fb kernel options are correct now with the changes.

[Comment 8 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-06-12 14:50:35 UTC]

Reassigning as it is not a KDE issue.

[Comment 9 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-06-12 20:24:36 UTC]

This bug is resolved.  I haven't touched the framebuffer stuff in a long time, but the forums or gensplash guides would be good places to look.