Framebuffer fun

Getting the framebuffer splash page going was a fun day.

There's some not so secret sauce - that's the definitive one for me April 2010

% emerge splashutils
% emerge -av splash-themes-gentoo
% splash_geninitramfs --verbose --res 1280x1024 --generate /boot/splash gentoo

it uses /etc/splash/gentoo as the source Dir for the files

title Gentoo Vesa
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root/dev/sda2 vga=0x31b video=nvidiafb:1280x1024-32@72,tty:12 splash=silent,theme:gentoo console=tty1
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/splash

various places claim you need 16bit vga but that's no longer true

make sure the bits in the kernel conf are set

my fb1 config

next stage I guess is making custom ones