Gensplash-How-to with progressbar!!!!!

ferret · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 22 Location: Oxford UK

No idea. But if it works, use it.

MorLipf · Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 8:57 am Post subject:

How can I use the framebuffer splash with the newest gentoo-sources? I can't find the option for the splash in the config!

RayDude · Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject:

loonix · Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 2:39 pm Post subject:

Ok, I pretty much follwed the how-to's this post refers to, partly successful

I am using genkernel and re-did my genkernel with the --bootsplash and --gensplash=NewLinux switches.

I changed my grub config and added

mallchin · Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject:

The kernel lines I have seen mentioned in the Wiki and during this thread don't work for me.

I edited mine to look like this and voila:

hoschi · Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77674

HELLO? Will anybody fix this bug now?
This is really boring...
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mallchin · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 12:26 am Post subject:

Looks like a lot of activity on the bug. If it isn't fixed bump it, I am sure it will get noticed.
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loonix · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 1:02 am Post subject:

I emerged splashutils-1.1.9.6

It works to 80%. When the splash screen comes up it gets interrupted by the gentoo "load kernel modules" process, which puts all its verbose output on the screen, then after a bit, it jumps back to the splash screen and continues without interruption with the progress bar until the boot process is finished.

The other thing is that I am getting errors during the boot up (which do not have an impact on the splash screen because I set SPLASH_VERBOSE_ON_ERRORS="no" in /etc/conf.d/splash):

/sbin/splash: line 66 +5*: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "*")

The theme I am using is NewLinux which I converted to splashutils by bootsplash2fbsplash /etc/bootsplash/NewLinux/

Here is my grub.conf

darkcoder · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject:

R0adkill · n00b Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 3

Hi.

I'w read the wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash and found it most helpfull. The fbsplash works fine but:

if I choose a diferent theme then emergence it wont show any nice graphice during boot. I compiled the kernel with "genkernel --gensplash=emergence --oldconfig --udev all" and it works just fine.

However, if i run "genkernel --gensplash=gentoo/psychotoxic --oldconfig --udev all" it down word. The gentoo splash theme comes with the splashutils and the psychotoxic was converted from the bootsplash-themes with "bootsplash2fbsplash".

Does anybody have any idea why only the emergence splash theme works?

loonix · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject:

Update:

ok, thanks to spock I was able to fix my problems.

1. the issue with the linuxrc script appearing on top of the splashscreen was fixed by adding kdgraphics to the grub.conf kernel line like this ...."splash=silent,kdgraphics,theme:"....

2. the issue with the error was fixed by adding a text_size varibale into my silent config file of the theme

Many thanks again to spock

AR

loonix · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 10:32 pm Post subject:

R0adkill · n00b Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 3

Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1623 Location: U.S.A.

Anyone have any experience with an older pci video card and splashutils?

Got a friend running an amd64, but kept their old Nvidia TnT video card. The weird thing is splash w/progressbar
works fine during boot. But during shutdown/reboot get black screen with ascii all over. It reboots fine, but just
doesn't work during shutdown/reboot. Noticed that can't get to console either at that time either, just ascii.

I know it all worked fine on my system cause except for video, same system. I also put the same Gentoo build
on there that was working on mine on their harddrive. And tested it on my system. Boot and reboot worked, until
stuck it in their system. So has to be the video card.

Probably no one has an answer, but never know till ask.

Splashutils-1.1.9.5
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GlooM · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject:

Everything works fine except at boot-up while the kernel is loading the bootsplash loads only about 1/3 of the screen height, then after a few services start the screen refreshes and it works fine then.
Any clues ?

Running vanilla-sources-2.6.11.10 + fbsplash + vesafb-tng
splashutils-1.1.9.6

Edit: nevermind, fadein and kdgraphics solves this.

Now when the silent boot comes to the part where it starts xdm it switches to verbose mode for 2 seconds and then xdm appears, is there a way to keep it in silent all the time ?
The same happens when rebooting, its in silent mode until the last line ("Remounting fs's in read-only mode..."), then it switches to verbose and reboots.

RayDude · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject:

GlooM · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 6:44 pm Post subject:

hoschi · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77674
its boring...

@spock: any idea?
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muppski · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 130

Hey If I do my lilo.conf as shown bellow Gentoo wont boot up and tell me I need to add init=/linuxrc

but If I remove "video=vesafb:uwrap,mtrr 1024x768-16@85 splash=silent" from
append = "init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3 ramdisk=8192 video=vesafb:uwrap,mtrr 1024x768-16@85 splash=silent"
It works, but no splash =/

What am I doing wrong?

mintu · n00b Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 21

hi
i followed 'http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash' guide.
now its working but only silent mode .. when i switch to splash=verbose or press F2 at boot time.. then in background no image appears.
also fbsplash uses default theme while i specified emegence theme.
i have gentoo with reiser4 .. splashutils-1.1.9.6
one more strange thing that when i try to find fbsplash it doesnt shows me nething. i mean it shud b installed on my comp or its a part of splashutils? when i tried to locate it shows:

Heimdall · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 31

Hi,

it's partially working here (with much pain). I have the splashscreen with progress bar at startup. It shows first, then got a line (about swsusp image being corrupted) over it and back to normal, with a nice progressbar. If I press F2, I enter verbose mode, on a dark plain background, but can't go back to the splashscreen (I think I saw an option in the kernel somewhere to correct this). However, I also have errors in /sbin/splash, at line 66, with +5* not being a correct syntax (which means that at least $text_size isn't defined.
Much worse, if I try to start /etc/init.d/splash, I experience a hard freeze, with nothing answering and must reboot manually. I don't see any error message in logs (just "fbsplash: setting console (0|1) to theme blabla" in /var/log/messages).
Btw, I am running kernel 2.6.12-mm1 and have had to adapt manually the patches (if that interests somebody...). My grub line is

dr_nailz · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject: low depth bootsplash

My bootsplashes look horrible. I think they must be running in some really low colour depth. When I try livecd-2005.1 I get the message:

Joffer · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:12 am Post subject:

I'm sorry to post this, since it's probably solved on one of the 28 pages, but it's just too much to read, so if any of you who have followed the thread could give me a hint/solution....

I've followed the fbsplash howto on gentoo-wiki, and I'm almost there. But justas I boot, I get this error:

dr_nailz · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:33 am Post subject: Re: low depth bootsplash