back



from small one page howto to huge articles all in one place

search text in:




Other .linuxhowtos.org sites: www.linuxhowtos.org
toolsntoys.linuxhowtos.org



Last additions:
How to make X listen on port 6000

How to make X listen on port 6000

words:

34

views:

84530

userrating:

average rating: 1.2 (52 votes) (1=very good 6=terrible)


May, 25th 2007:
April, 26th 2007:
Apr, 10th. 2007:
Druckversion . pdf icon
You are here: Tips&Tricks

Bootup with the Gentoo 2006.0 logo

When you boot from the 2006.0 LiveCD you see an awesome Gentoo bootlogo and progress-bar -- and you wish you could impress your friends with it during your usual bootup? Here we go:

Note: splashutils only work on x86 and amd64 architectures perfectly at the moment. Support for ppc is in progress.

Check your kernel-config to make sure that "Initial RAM disk (initrd) support" is built in. You can find the option in "Device Drivers" --> "Block devices" --> "RAM disk support".

Furthermore check that you are using an appropriate framebuffer for your video-card ("Graphics Support") or stick with the VESA-framebuffer. Usually splashutils should do the checks during the emerge-progress, but we want to be sure. Now tell your bootloader that it should load the initrd with the 2006.0-splash: The reccomended way is Device drivers/Graphic support/support for bla bla/VESA vga/vesafb-tng. Check it is vesafb-tng and not only vesafb|-

(x86 only I guess) As well you need Device drivers/Graphic support/console display.../video mod && framebuffer console... DO NOT click boot logo

Then we need to emerge splashutils and splash-themes-livecd:

Code Listing 1: emerge splashutils and splash-themes-livecd

# emerge splash-themes-livecd 
splashutils is a dependency of splash-themes-livecd

Now we have to create an initial boot-disk. You are free to change the resolution to your choice, but choose one that is available as a config file in /etc/splash/livecd-2006.0/

Code Listing 2: Creation of an initrd with the 2006.0-splash

Be sure that /boot is mounted before you call the command 
# splash_geninitramfs -v -g /boot/splash-livecd-2006.0-1024x768 \ 
  -r 1024x768 /etc/splash/livecd-2006.0

Code Listing 3: Configure the bootloader

# nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
First change your kernel-boot-line to something like this (depends on 
your used framebuffer and further kernel-parameters): 
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.16-r6 root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb:1024x768-32@72 
  splash=silent,theme:livecd-2006.0 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 
You must use more than 8bpp (in this example it is 32, 
specified by 1024x768-32@72).

Add the following line to your kernel-config:

initrd /boot/splash-livecd-2006.0-1024x768

Now we have that nice bootup-splash installed. Finally we want a permanent Gentoo statusbar at the bottom of our terminal-session, like on the LiveCD. Therefore we have to change the default theme in /etc/splash:

Code Listing 4: Change the default splash

# cd /etc/splash 
# rm default 
# ln -s livecd-2006.0 default

This splash should be started after bootup has finished:

Code Listing 5: Add splash to the default runlevel

# rc-update add splash default

If you want to finetune the splash-theme, you should have a look at /etc/conf.d/splash. Happy Gentooing!

Thanks to Michael Januszewski for his work on splashutils and Nicholas D. Wolfwood for the 2006.0-theme.

From http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050418-newsletter.xml Updated by petr.fiala&&gmail.com /*just fuck spam*/ 29.6.2006 hope it helps and again big thx to Michael Januszewski

P.S. emerge bootsplash-themes for more themes than just the install logo.

Support us on Content Nation

New Packages

- as rdf newsfeed
- as rss newsfeed
- as Atom newsfeed
2026-04-21
firefox - 150.0
Ebuild name:

www-client/firefox-150.0

Description

Firefox Web Browser

Added to portage

2026-04-21

firefox-l10n - 150.0
Ebuild name:

www-client/firefox-l10n-150.0

Description

Firefox Web Browser's translation files

Added to portage

2026-04-21

git - 2.54.0
Ebuild name:

dev-vcs/git-2.54.0

Description

Stupid content tracker distributed VCS designed for speed and efficiency

Added to portage

2026-04-21

htmlcxx - 0.87-r1
Ebuild name:

dev-cpp/htmlcxx-0.87-r1

Description

A simple non-validating CSS 1 and HTML parser for C++

Added to portage

2026-04-21

liblouis - 3.37.0-r1
Ebuild name:

dev-libs/liblouis-3.37.0-r1

Description

An open-source braille translator and back-translator

Added to portage

2026-04-21

pelican - 4.12.0
Ebuild name:

app-text/pelican-4.12.0

Description

A tool to generate a static blog, with restructured text or markdown input

Added to portage

2026-04-21

radarr-bin - 6.2.0.10390
Ebuild name:

www-apps/radarr-bin-6.2.0.10390

Description

A fork of Sonarr to work with movies a la Couchpotato

Added to portage

2026-04-21

rutorrent - 5.3.0
Ebuild name:

www-apps/rutorrent-5.3.0

Description

ruTorrent is a front-end for the popular Bittorrent client rTorrent

Added to portage

2026-04-21

spectre-meltdown-checker - 26.33.0420460
Ebuild name:

app-admin/spectre-meltdown-checker-26.33.0420460

Description

Spectre & Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation ch

Added to portage

2026-04-21

2026-04-20
amule - 2.3.3-r8
Ebuild name:

net-p2p/amule-2.3.3-r8

Description

aMule, the all-platform eMule p2p client

Added to portage

2026-04-20

bluez-alsa - 4.3.1-r2
Ebuild name:

media-sound/bluez-alsa-4.3.1-r2

Description

Bluetooth Audio ALSA Backend

Added to portage

2026-04-20

coreutils - 9.11
Ebuild name:

sys-apps/coreutils-9.11

Description

Standard GNU utilities (chmod, cp, dd, ls, sort, tr, head, wc, who,...)

Added to portage

2026-04-20

filelock - 3.29.0
Ebuild name:

dev-python/filelock-3.29.0

Description

A platform independent file lock for Python

Added to portage

2026-04-20

firefox-bin - 150.0
Ebuild name:

www-client/firefox-bin-150.0

Description

Firefox Web Browser

Added to portage

2026-04-20

gcc - 16.0.1_p20260419
Ebuild name:

sys-devel/gcc-16.0.1_p20260419

Description

The GNU Compiler Collection

Added to portage

2026-04-20

gentoo-sources - 5.10.253
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.10.253

Description

Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the . kernel tree

Added to portage

2026-04-20

gentoo-sources - 5.15.203
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.15.203

Description

Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the . kernel tree

Added to portage

2026-04-20

gentoo-sources - 6.1.169
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.1.169

Description

Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the . kernel tree

Added to portage

2026-04-20

gentoo-sources - 6.12.82
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.12.82

Description

Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the . kernel tree

Added to portage

2026-04-20

gentoo-sources - 6.18.23
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.18.23

Description

Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the . kernel tree

Added to portage

2026-04-20

gentoo-sources - 6.19.13
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.19.13

Description

Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the . kernel tree

Added to portage

2026-04-20

gentoo-sources - 6.6.135
Ebuild name:

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.6.135

Description

Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the . kernel tree

Added to portage

2026-04-20

gentoolkit - 0.7.2
Ebuild name:

app-portage/gentoolkit-0.7.2

Description

Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo

Added to portage

2026-04-20

ghostty - 1.3.1
Ebuild name:

x11-terms/ghostty-1.3.1

Description

Fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator

Added to portage

2026-04-20

ghostty-terminfo - 1.3.1
Ebuild name:

x11-terms/ghostty-terminfo-1.3.1

Description

Terminfo for ghostty, a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform ter

Added to portage

2026-04-20

hash-slinger - 3.5
Ebuild name:

net-dns/hash-slinger-3.5

Description

Various tools to generate DNS records like SSHFP, TLSA, OPENPGPKEY, IPSECK

Added to portage

2026-04-20

img2pdf - 0.6.3
Ebuild name:

media-gfx/img2pdf-0.6.3

Description

Losslessly convert raster images to PDF

Added to portage

2026-04-20

irker - 2.25
Ebuild name:

net-irc/irker-2.25

Description

Submission tools for IRC notifications

Added to portage

2026-04-20

libquo - 1.3.1-r3
Ebuild name:

sys-cluster/libquo-1.3.1-r3

Description

Run-time tuning of process binding policies made easy

Added to portage

2026-04-20

libtmux - 0.55.1
Ebuild name:

dev-python/libtmux-0.55.1

Description

Typed library that provides an ORM wrapper for tmux, a terminal multiplex

Added to portage

2026-04-20

lyx - 2.5.1
Ebuild name:

app-office/lyx-2.5.1

Description

WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) document processor based on LaTeX

Added to portage

2026-04-20

mate-calc - 1.28.0-r2
Ebuild name:

mate-extra/mate-calc-1.28.0-r2

Description

Calculator for MATE

Added to portage

2026-04-20

md5deep - 4.4
Ebuild name:

app-crypt/md5deep-4.4

Description

Expanded md5sum program with recursive and comparison options

Added to portage

2026-04-20

md6sum - 1.0-r3
Ebuild name:

app-crypt/md6sum-1.0-r3

Description

A C implementation of MD6

Added to portage

2026-04-20

mhash - 0.9.9.9-r4
Ebuild name:

app-crypt/mhash-0.9.9.9-r4

Description

Library providing a uniform interface to a large number of hash algorith

Added to portage

2026-04-20

minisign - 0.12
Ebuild name:

app-crypt/minisign-0.12

Description

Dead simple tool to sign files and verify signatures

Added to portage

2026-04-20

minted - 3.4.0-r1
Ebuild name:

dev-tex/minted-3.4.0-r1

Description

LaTeX package for source code syntax highlighting

Added to portage

2026-04-20

nbxmpp - 7.2.0
Ebuild name:

dev-python/nbxmpp-7.2.0

Description

Python library to use Jabber/XMPP networks in a non-blocking way

Added to portage

2026-04-20

nikola - 8.3.3-r1
Ebuild name:

www-apps/nikola-8.3.3-r1

Description

A static website and blog generator

Added to portage

2026-04-20

pybind11 - 3.0.4
Ebuild name:

dev-python/pybind11-3.0.4

Description

AST-based Python refactoring library

Added to portage

2026-04-20

pygobject - 3.56.2
Ebuild name:

dev-python/pygobject-3.56.2

Description

Python bindings for GObject Introspection

Added to portage

2026-04-20

safeeyes - 3.4.1
Ebuild name:

x11-misc/safeeyes-3.4.1

Description

Linux alternative to EyeLeo

Added to portage

2026-04-20

skopeo - 1.22.2
Ebuild name:

app-containers/skopeo-1.22.2

Description

Work with remote container images registries

Added to portage

2026-04-20

starship - 1.25.0
Ebuild name:

app-shells/starship-1.25.0

Description

The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any sh

Added to portage

2026-04-20

testdisk - 7.2-r1
Ebuild name:

app-admin/testdisk-7.2-r1

Description

Checks and undeletes partitions + PhotoRec, signature based recovery tool

Added to portage

2026-04-20

vlc - 4.0.0_pre20260418
Ebuild name:

media-video/vlc-4.0.0_pre20260418

Description

Media player and framework with support for most multimedia files

Added to portage

2026-04-20

rdf newsfeed | rss newsfeed | Atom newsfeed
Copyright 2004-2025 Sascha Nitsch Unternehmensberatung GmbH
- Copyright and legal notices -
Time to create this page: 59.3 ms