Another 'no splash during boot' problem

[oldwierdal]

I just installed Mandriva 2009, and everything seems to be working fine. Except, that is, that during boot, there is no splash. This is not a terrible problem. More just an annoying little thing that I haven't been able to fix.

This is my /boot/grub/menu.lst;

$ sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

timeout 5

color black/cyan yellow/cyan

gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu

default 0

 

title Mandriva 2009.0 (2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb)

kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb root=/dev/sda5 resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent vga=788

initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb.img

 

#title failsafe

#kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe

#root=UUID=caafeff4-2710-4d75-8b58-68b941c181ff failsafe

#initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

 

title CentOS (Final)

root (hd0,0)

configfile /grub/grub.conf

 

title Mandriva Linux (Official)

root (hd1,4)

configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

 

And, splashy is installed;

$ sudo rpm -qa | grep splashy

libsplashy1-0.3.11-4mdv2009.0

splashy-0.3.11-4mdv2009.0

 

I read through another post on this problem, marked solved, except that it did not appear to be solved for one of the participants. Also, there didn't seem to be anything in it that helped me. I've uninstalled and re-installed splashy, complete with the same problem of many packages being removed in addition to splashy, and having to re-install nearly all of gnome.

I've edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst to be certain it didn't contain an extra space after the vmlinuz info, and also after the BOOT_IMAGE= info, which, in the past has caused this problem.

 

As I've said, this is not an urgent problem, rather just an annoying one. However, any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

owa

[yossarian]

I'll be tracking this topic.

;)

[AussieJohn]

I found that until I installed the correct driver for the video card I also had no splash=silent.

When I did get a silent splash it was with a badly pixilated image of the the splash=silent screen.

 

Splashy is installed also.

 

Cheers. John.

[oldwierdal]

This is the output of;

$ /usr/bin/lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge

00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series]

02:01.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems V.92 56K WinModem (rev 03)

02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

02:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 80)

 

Is there a special driver, then, for the ATI Radeon Xpress 200G Series built-in video driver? How might I find an appropriate driver for this? Odd that 2008.1 did not seem to have this problem.

 

Thanks for the reply. I'll see what I can find out about this.

 

owa

[Greg2]

Have you tried using the proprietary fglrx driver from the public non-free repo? Please see the release notes: ATI_graphics_cards

[oldwierdal]

Hi Greg2. I think I have that installed. This is the output of;

$ rpm -qa | grep fglrx
x11-driver-video-fglrx-8.542-1mdv2009.0
fglrx-kernel-2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb-8.522-3mdv2009.0
fglrx-kernel-desktop586-latest-8.522-1.20081002.3mdv2009.0
fglrx-control-center-8.542-1mdv2009.0
fglrx-kernel-desktop-latest-8.522-1.20081002.3mdv2009.0
fglrx-kernel-2.6.27-desktop-0.rc8.2mnb-8.522-3mdv2009.0
dkms-fglrx-8.542-1mdv2009.0

 

So, doesn't this mean that it is installed?

 

$ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb #1 SMP Thu Oct 2 05:52:21 EDT 2008 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3400+ GNU/Linux

 

What do you think?

 

Thanks,

owa