I'm using development-sources-2.6.8.1 and bootsplash-0.6.1-r6. I've noticed when viewing files with text editors such as less or vim, text in a virtual console becomes messed up (see example below). This does not happen if I turn bootsplash off, or view the file in a terminal (kde). So I'm thinking there must be a problem with the bootsplash patch against kernel-2.6.8.1 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. less /var/log/messages 2. press the down cursor once 3. press the up cursor once Actual Results: For example, after step 1, I have this displayed on the first 5 lines: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aug 29 08:52:17 newton syslog-ng[6963]: new configuration initialized Aug 29 08:52:17 newton syslog-ng[6963]: new configuration initialized Aug 29 08:52:17 newton syslog-ng[6963]: SIGHUP received, restarting syslog-ng Aug 29 08:53:00 newton CRON[14492]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/ sbin/run-crons ) Aug 29 08:54:00 newton CRON[21693]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ) After step 3, the same should be displayed, but this is what I get on the first 5 lines: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Aug 29 08:52:17 newton syslog-ng[6963]: new configuration initializedyslog-ng Aug 29 08:53:00 newton CRON[14492]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ) Aug 29 08:54:00 newton CRON[21693]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ) Aug 29 08:55:00 newton CRON[26810]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ) Aug 29 08:56:00 newton CRON[26835]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ) Portage 2.0.50-r10 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.8.1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8.1 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.90GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://adelie.polymtl.ca/" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://eigen.tomek.ca/gentoo-portage" USE="S3TC X X509 acl alsa apm arts avi bindist cdr crypt cscope cups divx4linux dvdesd ethereal fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww lzw-tiff mad maildir mmx mpeg msn ncurses nls nogcj noreiserfs nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl plotutils png pnp python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype type1 unicode usb video_cards_nvidia vim-with-x wxwindows x86 xchattext xine xml2 xv xvid zlib"
Forgot to add, after doing step 3 where the text is messed up, at the bottom of the screen above the colon appears this text "ESC[A"
This is a problem with the bootsplash patch which I no longer maintain. You might wish to report this problem to oliver@dediziert.org (the maintainer of bootsplash.de) as he the most likely person to be able to contact the author of the patch for 2.6.8.1.
