March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Chapter 1, Booting Linux
#8 Jazz Up Your Debian System Boot
HACK
make menuconfig
When you use make menuconfig to configure your kernel, you have to follow
the menu options. Here are the menu steps you should follow to set up your
kernel to support boot splash and the frame buffer:
1. Select Device Drivers
➝ Graphics support ➝ Support for frame buffer
devices.
2. Select the “VESA VGA graphics support” option and press Y.
3. Select “Video mode selection support” and press Y (you should see the
selection show
[*]).
4. Select “Console display driver support” and press Enter.
5. Select “Video mode selection support” and press Y, after which you
should see
[*].
6. Select “Framebuffer Console support” and press Y, after which you
should see
<*>.
7. Exit from this menu. Now select Bootsplash Configuration, and when
you see the only selection, “Bootup splash screen,” press Y (you should
see the selection show
[*]).
You might see a frame-buffer driver specifically written for
your video card and be tempted to use it instead of the VESA
VGA driver. This can lead to serious problems if you also use
an accelerated graphics driver for your video card. For exam-
ple, never select “nVidia riva” frame-buffer support if you
plan to use the third-party NVIDIA accelerated graphics
drivers. These two drivers do not play well together, and
you’re sure to have video crashes.
If your system uses an initial RAM disk (initrd), now
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