[Splashy-devel] Bug#411473: splashy: Error message during boot and no splash screen

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:50:07 +0100
Benjamin Eikel <debian at eikel.org> wrote:

> Package: splashy
> Version: 0.3.2
> Severity: normal
> 
> I installed the splashy and splashy-themes package on my laptop, added the "splash" option to my boot options but splashy does not 
> work. I am using a self-built kernel (no debian package) and no initrd.
> I get the following error messages during boot:
> 
> Splashy ERROR: Connection refused
> Splashy ERROR: Couldn't splashy_start_splashy(). Error -3
> 
> The splash screen is neither shown on boot nor on shutdown.
> 
> On my desktop PC (Debian unstable, same kernel version and no initrd too), the same procedure (installing packages, addding kernel 
> parameter, reboot) works for me. The splash screen is displayed during boot and shutdown there.

Do you have a framebuffer driver compiled for (into) your custom
kernel? Have you added a vga=... entry to the kernel command line?

grts Tim
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