usplash problem under Debian

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Fri, 2008-12-19 10:24

Whistler

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Hi,

I installed the usplash package provided by Debian, but during boot the splash is not shown. And there is a message like "No theme found for screen mode 1024x768", however I have already installed the debian-edu-artwork-usplash package.

Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Fri, 2008-12-19 13:20

libervisco

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VESA modes in menu.lst

Maybe the usplash theme expects a specific resolution which you don't have set for your boot process. If the theme needs 1024x768, but it's set to something else that might be why it doesn't work.

So maybe adding vga=791 (for 1024x768 with 16 bit colors) to the kernel line in your /boot/grub/menu.lst would help.

I'll put the table of all VESA VGA mode for convenience (found here).

VESA modes
Colors (depth)	640x480	800x600	1024x768	1280x1024	1600x1200
256 ( 8 bit)	769	771	773	775	796
32,768 (15 bit)	784	787	790	793	797
65,536 (16 bit)	785	788	791	794	798
16.8M (24 bit)	786	789	792	795	799