Bug 75392

Summary: weird boot logo
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Carlos Rodrigues <cefrodrigues>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Carlos Rodrigues 2002-10-08 01:16:11 UTC
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Description of problem:
When using the console in vesa framebuffer mode, the boot logo apears all weird.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.add vga=0x303 to the kernel line of grub.conf
2.reboot
3.
	

Actual Results:  The boot logo appears all weird (striped).

Additional info:

I don't know if it's supposed to look that way, but it really looks awful to me.

Comment 1 Doug 2002-10-11 07:16:37 UTC
Yep, happened to me too.

I was booting with vga=773 (1024x768x8bpp) and video=vesa:ywrap, and the logo 
really sucks.

Some investigation has uncovered that RH changed the logo file 
(include/linux/linux_logo.h), but failed to update LOGO_H and LOGO_W in 
drivers/video/fbcon.c.  The results are that the new logo (looks like it's 
supposed to have a res of 2400x20) are not in sync with fbcon.c expected size 
of 800x60.

The other possibility is that the junk in the new linux_logo.h file has been 
corrupted somehow, because I'm still trying to figure out why RH wants a bootup 
logo with a width of 2400 - seems too big for me.

I think you can workaround this ugly logo by doing one of two things:

1. Grab linux_logo.h from RH 7.3, replace it, and rebuild the kernel.
2. Grab linux_logo.h and fbcon.c from kernel-2.4.19, replace em both, rebuild 
the kernel, then see a TUX logo instead of RH's.  :)

Basically, the bitmap for the logo in linux_logo.h must be EXACTLY synchronized 
with the #defines of LOGO_H and LOGO_W in fbcon.c - and they are NOT sync'd in 
RH 8.0.

BB.