fbsplash and tty background in Gentoo

[apoorv_khurasia]

Hi all

I posted this problem first in the Gentoo section but as there was no reply (I waited for 2 days) so I am posting it here. Someone please delete my older post#post316099.

Here follows the account of my problem:

I am using Gentoo 2005. Currently I am trying to get background images on my ttys by using fbspalsh. I followed the things mentioned in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash but I am not getting any background image on my ttys. Here is my background.cfg file

# Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

bgcolor=0

tx=28
ty=28
tw=747
th=497

text_x=60
text_y=420
text_size=20
text_color=0xeef4ff

jpeg=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/silent-640x480.jpg
silentjpeg=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/silent-640x480.jpg
pic=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/verbose-640x480.jpg
silentpic=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/silent-640x480.jpg
pic256=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/verbose-640x480-240.png
silentpic256=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/silent-640x480-256.png

box silent noover       160 453 640 477 #04045498
box silent inter        160 454 160 476 #ffffff #ffffff #526bb0 #526bb0
box silent              160 454 640 476 #ffffff #ffffff #526bb0 #526bb0

box silent              160 453 640 453 #313234
box silent              160 477 640 477 #eef4ff
box silent              160 453 160 477 #313234
box silent              640 453 640 477 #eef4ff

box noover 20 20 780 530 #04045498


box     19 19 19 531 #313234
box     19 19 781 19 #313234
box     781 19 781 531 #eef4ff
box     19 531 781 531 #eef4ff

Then I tried

DeusExMachina Geiger # splash_manager --theme=gentoo --cmd=set --tty=2

which gave me this message which I don't understand

FBIOSPLASH_SETCFG failed, error code 22.
FBIOSPLASH_SETSTATE failed, error code 22.

Can someone please help me with the problem.

[Zero-0-Effect]

Ive just ran into this exact situation myself modifying a 1280x1024 config to a 1280x800 resolution. Looks like that config file is for a 800x600 screen size, not 640x480. Either use a larger picture (resize it or otherwise) or start modifying the rest of that config file.

By the way, what do you set your console to during boot up..err... what grub/lilo options do you use?

Have to suggest you read this.

zless /usr/share/doc/splashutils-1.1.9.10-r1/theme_format.gz

Replace 1.1.9.10-r1 with your version of splashutils you have.

[Zero-0-Effect]

Did this real quick.. still need to edit the rest but this should give you a idea..

bgcolor=0

tx=0
ty=0
tw=640
th=480

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jpeg=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/silent-640x480.jpg
silentjpeg=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/silent-640x480.jpg
pic=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/verbose-640x480.jpg
silentpic=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/silent-640x480.jpg
pic256=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/verbose-640x480-240.png
silentpic256=/etc/splash/gentoo/images/silent-640x480-256.png

box silent noover       128 416 512 429 #04045498
box silent inter        128 416 128 429 #ffffff #ffffff #526bb0 #526bb0
box silent              128 416 512 429 #ffffff #ffffff #526bb0 #526bb0

box silent              128 415 512 415 #313234
box silent              128 430 512 430 #eef4ff
box silent              127 415 127 430 #313234
box silent              512 415 512 430 #eef4ff
...
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