Bug 164619

Summary:	fbsplash: only 1/3 of splash screen shown during boot
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Drake (RETIRED) <dsd>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) <spock>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-30 22:12:24 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-11 18:11:46 UTC

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?

Comment 2 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-12 18:42:54 UTC

(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

Comment 3 Pat Double 2007-02-28 14:14:45 UTC

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.

Comment 4 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-17 17:06:58 UTC

This is a kernel problem, fixable by a patch sent upstream (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/15/148).