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Ozymandias Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 81 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 6:31 pm Post subject: Boot Splash screen |
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Hi there,
I want to make a splash boot screen, that displays when the kernel is booting, and stays until the init scrips are done, like mandrake (and suse?) does. What kernel patches do I need? And how do I get init and the gentoo initscripts inside the splash screen? I searched using google, but couldn't really find wat I was looking for. A little teaser:
[img:1c41ff71f8]http://ozy.student.utwente.nl/splash.png[/img:1c41ff71f8]
basically what I wanted to do is boot with framebuffer support, then paint the console background with a picture and make the console use only the insides of the framebuffer instead of the whole thing. I beleve this is how suse does it, but I cannot find anything about this. Any hints?
greetz Ozy |
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bidz n00b
Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 54 Location: Norway
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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this is a nice idea.. but sadly, i have no idea on how to manage it, but i guess alot of people might be interested getting such stuff up and running, maybe with their custom splash screens, etc.. anyone that knows more maybe? _________________ bidz @ efnet |
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bidz n00b
Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 54 Location: Norway
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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i found a boot-logo replacement, so that you dont need to watcha all the scrolling of info, etc, from the kernel at bootup, it might be moddable, check it out: http://lpp.freelords.org/
description:
About LPP
The Linux Progress Patch is a kernel patch which displays a
full-screen logo with a progress bar and some informational
text while booting. It hides the normal startup messages
printed by the kernel, and is meant for people that don't
care about complicated and possibly confusing boot messages. _________________ bidz @ efnet |
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Ozymandias Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 81 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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I have seen this one, but with that patch (not for the latest kernels) you see nothing, but a progress bar, not quite what I want, I want a big screen (I have an LCD monitor: 1024x768) with an image, inside I want the boottext to be visible, including the boottext from the gentoo init scripts. What to do with the graphics after booting is unclear, but I would love to change to a bigger font and have some sort of image filling some parts of the screen, because at 1024x768 a terminal is just no fun .. just in case I don't use X or swich back to console ..
but thanks for the help
greetz Ozy |
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shakti Guru
Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 358 Location: omnipresent
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2002 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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would be nice... any news on the subject? _________________ Using Gentoo since 2002. |
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arkane l33t
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2002 5:26 am Post subject: |
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That one looks pretty sweet.. but who in their right mind would run 2.4.0?
I love the customizability they have for it though.
bidz wrote: | i found a boot-logo replacement, so that you dont need to watcha all the scrolling of info, etc, from the kernel at bootup, it might be moddable, check it out: http://lpp.freelords.org/
description:
About LPP
The Linux Progress Patch is a kernel patch which displays a
full-screen logo with a progress bar and some informational
text while booting. It hides the normal startup messages
printed by the kernel, and is meant for people that don't
care about complicated and possibly confusing boot messages. |
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BLASTER_ Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 105 Location: .:Sea - WA - USA
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 12:55 am Post subject: |
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actualy the lpp will work with vanilla 2.4.18 sources. it dosent apply to the gentoo sources. :(
also I need ta wip out tha gimp and make some purple G splash screens for KDE and lpp. |
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Pavan n00b
Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 25 Location: India
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nbensa l33t
Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 799 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 6:28 am Post subject: |
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Hmm... Gentooshdoted? |
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tactless l33t
Joined: 14 Jul 2002 Posts: 642 Location: Mitzpe Adi, Israel
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 7:17 am Post subject: |
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iirc, Mandrake used Aurora. In 8.2 it uses the lpp. _________________ Tactless
"If it wasn't for fog, the world would run at a really crappy framerate."
Jabber: tactless@amessage.info |
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AlterEgo Veteran
Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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It's quite simple when you use lilo as bootmanager (ann framebuffer support):
Click the link below, for help
Even cooler: animated boot-screens
http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/ |
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Cid Highwind n00b
Joined: 09 Jul 2002 Posts: 53
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Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe we could extract the relevant bits from the SuSE kernel patches. Someone on KDE-look has promised to make a gentoo boot-splash screen, it would be nice if we could use it when it's done |
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garo Bodhisattva
Joined: 15 Jul 2002 Posts: 860 Location: Edegem,BELGIUM
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Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 11:28 am Post subject: |
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The gentoo boot-splash-screen from kde-look.org is ready
site is: here
download it: here |
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mdpye Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 102 Location: Nottingham, England
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Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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Cid Highwind wrote: | Maybe we could extract the relevant bits from the SuSE kernel patches. Someone on KDE-look has promised to make a gentoo boot-splash screen, it would be nice if we could use it when it's done |
I'm working on the SuSE patches. Not all plain sailing though, even after applying all those which appear in a grep for the appropriate bits I still get compiler errors and grepping the remaining patches for the problems (looking for ones which make any changes to the problem structures) doesn't yeild anything...
edit: Just applied ALL SuSE patches, and it still bails. +it's late. /me is off to bed unsatisfied. _________________ Cheers, MP |
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mdpye Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 102 Location: Nottingham, England
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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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BLASTER_ wrote: | actualy the lpp will work with vanilla 2.4.18 sources. it dosent apply to the gentoo sources. |
Well I can't get them to apply to vanilla 2.4.18. Two hunks fail, and it won't compile without them. _________________ Cheers, MP |
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arkane l33t
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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mdpye wrote: | BLASTER_ wrote: | actualy the lpp will work with vanilla 2.4.18 sources. it dosent apply to the gentoo sources. |
Well I can't get them to apply to vanilla 2.4.18. Two hunks fail, and it won't compile without them. |
I had the same problem with the emerged vanilla sources. I snagged sources from kernel.org and it patched.
Odd, eh? |
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mdpye Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 102 Location: Nottingham, England
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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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arkane wrote: | I had the same problem with the emerged vanilla sources. I snagged sources from kernel.org and it patched.
Odd, eh? |
Strange indeed, cos I also tried
Code: | tar -xjf /usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2
cd linux
patch -p1 < ../lpp.patch |
And it still failed. Looking at the ebuild:
Code: | SRC_URI="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-${OKV}.tar.bz2" |
So... I'm stumped. _________________ Cheers, MP |
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joshua Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 134 Location: Wiesbaden
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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so ... 5 months later ... anybody made it work?
i would love to have something like a graphical boot screen/animation for my gentoo-workstation.
any ideas? |
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pjp Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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joshua wrote: | so ... 5 months later ... anybody made it work? | Are you having clock skew problems? _________________ Quis separabit? Quo animo? |
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joshua Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 134 Location: Wiesbaden
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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kanuslupus wrote: | joshua wrote: | so ... 5 months later ... anybody made it work? | Are you having clock skew problems? |
argh ... i am sorry, ... hehe ... stupid joshua ... i confused the forum's dates ... forgive me
no, really, i tested my shiny new ldtm ("linux-driven time machine") to see what will be in about half a year ... |
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arkane l33t
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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I've worked with it about 5 times since my last posting. I got the default boot screen up from the LPP guys distribution (some german distro), but I can't seem to get my own booted. That, and for some reason after the patch is applied, the swap space won't activate for me! Odd behavior heheh...
I read the documentation that went along with the theming, and it tells you exactly how to make a logo and includes utilities to convert the logo over to a linux_logo.h file.
As I said, I got their default boot logo going fine. Just the problem with replacing it, along with the swap space activation problem. My machine has grub problems when booting, so rebooting is PAINSTAKING for me. (takes 2 minutes sometimes) That, and my ECS motherboard has some sort of bios issue that makes it take close to 20 to 30 seconds to autodetect my drives. (even if I specify them, it takes the same amount of time.. right jumper settings) Kinda daunting to test a boot logo with |
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joshua Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 134 Location: Wiesbaden
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Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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i got it kind of working, but i have problems aplying the patches - i tried various i found on the web that belong to various kernelversions. i did not find a patch for 2.4.19, which i actually use, so patching did not work quiet perfectly, i did most of it manually. the results looks useable, but there are two or three ugly init messages left and i cant use any other themes than the default, too.
so i have some questions:
* what kernel do you run, and what lpp-patch did you apply/where did you get it?
* how do i get rid of the init messages that begin with "INIT:" (like "init version 2.84 booting" or "INIT: switching to runlevel default")?
thanks for helping |
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arkane l33t
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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I used the patch for kernel 2.4.18. I couldn't find a patch for 2.4.19, and well.. 2.4.18 is alright in my book.
I got the patch from ftp://oss.gonicus.de/pub/goto which I *thought* I posted on here (I remember posting it) but I can't see it in the thread? hehe...
The themes package has full installation instructions. I snagged it before the LPP project started fragmenting into themes and patch. In order to make the console messages go away like you were talking about with INIT:, as a kernel parameter pass "CONSOLE=/dev/tty2 console=/dev/tty2". That will make all console boot messages (and anything console for that matter) go to /dev/tty2 and not the default /dev/tty1 where you are.
I used the vesa vga framebuffer, in case anyone is wondering. |
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den_RDC Apprentice
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 166 Location: beercountry, Belgium;)
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 2:30 am Post subject: |
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aha, a topic where i can post something usefull
i happen to run 2.4.19 (vanilla) with lpp working nicely (vesa framebuffer)
but i don't know anymore where i just put the patch, but i will search all my machines tomorrow and hopefully i'll find it ... i think i found the 2.4.19 patch somwhere in a debian package (or slack, don't remember) ...
anyway, stay tuned |
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arkane l33t
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 2:24 am Post subject: |
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That would be very cool. |
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