After flailing around trying to get bootsplash to work I did a for i in /etc/bootsplash/*/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg; do splash -s -u 0 $i; echo $i; read x done And discovered that many of the themes (such as ElvinTooka and FrozenBubble) did not work. Approximately half of them were functional (Emergance, Shodan, etc). My kung fu is not good enough to troubleshoot these themes, and the bootsplash module is NOT real big on diagnostics. perhaps there should be a message after the package is emerged which gives a warning that 1) some themes may be non-functional (I wonder if it is resolution-specific, hard to test that...) 2) 2.4 kernel users make sure you use a 16-bit video mode 3) how to test a theme on a console without rebooting Or if that's too much to fit on a screen, just print out a pointer to a local document or a gentoo web page. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot with vga=0x31a video=vesa splash=silent 2. splash -s -u 0 /etc/bootsplash/ElvinTooka/config/bootsplash-1280x1024.cfg 3. Actual Results: nothing Expected Results: installed a funky graphic behind the console. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.28-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.28-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 23 2005, 16:44:54)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/thoth/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X Xaw3d acl apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd fam font-server foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mjpegi mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses nls nojython oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l vim-with-x wmf xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
I've added some warnings in bootsplash-themes-20040821-r1. I've also tested the vast majority of the themes (with splashutils, not bootsplash; but if a theme doesn't work with bootsplash, it won't work with splashutils, either).
