Everything in gentoo seems to use devfs names where possible... in theory, at least. Since the small programs in the bootsplash package don't, they don't run on my system ;) This patch fixes that by trying /dev/fb/0 followed by /dev/fb0. I'm quite willing to change the patch to apply a commandline argument instead, though.
Created attachment 24426 [details, diff] bootsplash-devfsnames.patch I have tried this on -r3 and -r4, with success in both cases.
Included in bootsplash-0.6-r5. I also added devfs support to the 'progress' app.
