Using 2.6.18 with fbsplash: When the splash screen first appears, only the top 1/3 of it is shown. The rest of the screen is blank. 2-3 seconds later, the rest of the screen is drawn and the progress bar starts moving etc. Happens almost every time.
I understand that this happens in the very first stage of the boot-up (i.e. when normally you'd see the 'Initializing the kernel..' message). Is that correct? What framebuffer driver and which version of splashutils are you using?
(In reply to comment #1) > I understand that this happens in the very first stage of the boot-up (i.e. > when normally you'd see the 'Initializing the kernel..' message). Is that > correct? I think so. I have the system configured to hide the "initializing the kernel" message. > What framebuffer driver and which version of splashutils are you using? vesafb, splashutils 1.3-r3
I can confirm as well with kernel 2.6.19, radeonfb, splashutils 1.3-r2. This only happens for me with the "Initializing kernel..." message.
This is a kernel problem, fixable by a patch sent upstream (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/15/148).
