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usplash package

1024x768 with nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE: "screen init failed"

Bug #62865 reported by Johan Kiviniemi on 2006-09-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #60621: usplash: no usable theme found for 640x480. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	usplash (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

/etc/usplash.conf contains xres=1024 yres=768 by default because that's the Xorg resolution i'm using. For some reason, usplash isn't able to use it. It only outputs "screen init failed". When i change the resolution to 800x600, it works.

I'm somewhat at loss how to debug the issue.

It might be a good idea to make usplash automatically try falling back to a lower resolution (even if this specific issue gets solved).

Revision history for this message

Johan Kiviniemi (ion) wrote on 2006-10-01: Resolution fallback fix

Resolution fallback fix Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain)

The resolution fallback feature in the new usplash version corrupts the screen.

usplash_svga_setmode falls back to a smaller resolution if the requested one fails, but usplash_setup doesn't update the xres and yres variables accordingly.

The attached patch contains the following changes:
• usplash_init and usplash_getdimensions are now called *before* choosing the appropriate theme.
• usplash_svga_setmode prints a warning when it falls back to a lower resolution.
• usplash_svga_set_resolution's behavior is fixed: it used to set modenum to a value too big by 1, so setmode tried 1152x864 first when 1024x768 was requested.