Please include the result from the following commands on this bug report: cat /proc/cmdline cat /proc/fb ls -l /dev/fb*
>From the output of your splashy process, it looks like your framebuffer is not setup correctly. What happens when you run: dfbinfo # as root if possible You are in trouble if you see something like: (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2008-04-08 15:15) (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using Generic 64bit memcpy() (!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed --> No such file or directory (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device! (!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment variable. (!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core! --> Initialization error! (#) DirectFBError [DirectFBCreate() failed]: Initialization error! All in all, splashy should not crash when this happens. We will look into this. -- ----)(----- Luis Mondesi Maestro Debiano ----- START ENCRYPTED BLOCK (Triple-ROT13) ------ Gur Hohagh [Yvahk] qvfgevohgvba oevatf gur fcvevg bs Hohagh gb gur fbsgjner jbeyq. ----- END ENCRYPTED BLOCK (Triple-ROT13) ------