new userspace bootsplash! (splashy)

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suineg · Post by **suineg** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:55 am

I came across this new userspace bootsplash based on directfb and was curious if anyone had tried it.

link

looks pretty cool if you ask me, although it says on spocks website that there are to be major changes to gensplash so I don't know which will be better.

I do like the idea of it not requiring a kernel module though

suineg · Post by **suineg** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:53 am

I find it hard to believe that no one is interested in trying this.

*shrug* could be wrong though.

predatorfreak · Post by **predatorfreak** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:10 am

I'm interested in the idea of doing this sort of thing in user space because it's actually better then doing it kernel level, doing it kernel level means adding more code to the kernel which doesn't NEED to be there. Although I'm personally against eye-candyish boots :\.

Earthwings · Post by **Earthwings** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:22 am

suineg wrote:I find it hard to believe that no one is interested in trying this.

There are no screenshots, or I missed them. Who would install eye candy things without having seen a screenshot?

suineg · Post by **suineg** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:28 am

good point, perhaps I will try and grab some screenies. how does one take screenshots at boot anyway :\

suineg · Post by **suineg** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:39 am

Earthwings wrote:
suineg wrote:I find it hard to believe that no one is interested in trying this.
There are no screenshots, or I missed them. Who would install eye candy things without having seen a screenshot?

I actually found some, these are of ubuntu and debian. Not from the devs of splashy, but someone who created some themes.

this project is still pretty early in development, but could use some testers I think.

predatorfreak · Post by **predatorfreak** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:40 am

suineg wrote:good point, perhaps I will try and grab some screenies. how does one take screenshots at boot anyway :\

For a quickie, you could add the command to your local file.

Imago · Post by **Imago** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 11:44 am

hmm looks interesting.
But have a whole bunch of dependencies(DirectFB,++dfb,libxml, libxmlpp), which is quite bad when you have /usr on a seperate partition or even want to use it in an initrd.
Anyone have this working under gentoo?

btw.: the splashscreen/progressbar things from splashutils are also totally in userspace. only the console with background image is done "in-kernel".

CU
Imago

Archangel1 · Post by **Archangel1** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:20 pm

I'm not totally drawn to it since (from what I can tell) it doesn't kick in until init starts, which is somewhat later than fbsplash/bootsplash. It really starts to not seem worth it; it'd be easier to throw the user into X earlier and load a bunch of processes in the background once it reaches the login manager.

suineg · Post by **suineg** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:24 pm

Archangel1 wrote:I'm not totally drawn to it since (from what I can tell) it doesn't kick in until init starts, which is somewhat later than fbsplash/bootsplash. It really starts to not seem worth it; it'd be easier to throw the user into X earlier and load a bunch of processes in the background once it reaches the login manager.

I haven't managed to get it working yet, but I didn't realize this was the case. Your right, if it doesn't start until init, it's not worth it (to me at least).

it's a nice idea though.

desertstalker · Post by **desertstalker** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:23 am

Whats wrong with it not starting untill init is started? If you put quiet in your kernel paramaters then you just get a blank screen untill then.

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:10 am

I can't try it until they get it to work without needing /usr/lib mounted. I've got /usr on a seperate partition (like many other users, I would presume). Oh well.

allex87 · Post by **allex87** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:05 am

Why would I try it since I have fbsplash working?

What are the benefits of this?

G2k · Post by **G2k** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:52 am

allex87 wrote:Why would I try it since I have fbsplash working?

What are the benefits of this?

less code in the kernel...probably it's also easier to change splash image because of that as well, which is what I'm hoping.

bladdo · Post by **bladdo** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:47 pm

Im fine with bootsplash myself -- I found 1 screenshot
http://img155.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img155& ... ode1vb.jpg

Doesnt look all that great, Nothing I would go out of my way to get

Archangel1 · Post by **Archangel1** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:59 am

desertstalker wrote:Whats wrong with it not starting untill init is started? If you put quiet in your kernel paramaters then you just get a blank screen untill then.

So you get a blank screen for half the boot, then a splash which promptly goes away once X starts?
Plus quiet only keeps the kernel quiet until init IIRC, so you'll get a few messages briefly.

I just don't really see the advantage over fbsplash personally - other than some ephemeral idea of having more of it done in userspace.

MiMi wrote:Im fine with bootsplash myself -- I found 1 screenshot
http://img155.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img155& ... ode1vb.jpg

Doesnt look all that great, Nothing I would go out of my way to get

That doesn't look like anything that couldn't be done with fbsplash if you wanted anyway...

fuoco · Post by **fuoco** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:50 pm

I'd like to bump this thread. Splashy has come a long way. It would be nice to have testers in gentoo.

SteakTheMooCow · Post by **SteakTheMooCow** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:11 pm

Once I get the x86 emu box (p3 450 with emulators for DOS, Sega etc.) up I'll give it a shot. If I can get it to work properly there (I'll know if its working, its not as if a P3 450 boots fast) I'll test it on the AMD64 platform as well.

fuoco · Post by **fuoco** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:03 am

That would be cool. I'd like to try it too, maybe I will but I have ppc and it appears it doesn't work on that arch so far.

The idea of userspace boot-splash is very interesting to me, but the problem as it seems is that there's quite a few implementation and it's not too obvious what the differences, advantages/disadvantages of each are.
There's usplash, splashy, upower and I think there's some more.
I wonder why gensplash is being developed with a kernel patch instead of boosting the development of a userspace implementation.

SteakTheMooCow · Post by **SteakTheMooCow** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:23 am

http://alioth.debian.org/project/showfi ... p_id=30657

That's where their files are (found them

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hoyanf · Post by **hoyanf** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:46 pm

This is what am still working on it... Configure is fine but compile failed to do with ld linker...

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# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

inherit autotools eutils

WANT_AUTOMAKE="latest"
WANT_AUTOCONF="latest"

DESCRIPTION="Splashy is a next generation boot splashing system for Linux systems."
HOMEPAGE="http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/start"
SRC_URI="http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/2169/${P}.tar.gz"

LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
RESTRICT="nomirror"

IUSE="debug"

RDEPEND=">=sys-devel/autoconf-2.5.9
        >=sys-devel/automake-1.9
        >=sys-devel/libtool-1.5
        sys-process/procps
        >=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.14.0
        >=dev-libs/DirectFB-0.9.22
        >=dev-libs/glib-2
        media-libs/jpeg
        media-libs/libpng"

DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"

src_unpack () {
        unpack ${A} || die
}

src_compile() {
        eautoreconf || die
        econf \
                $(use_enable debug ) \
                || die "econf"
        emake -j1 || die "emake"
}

src_install() {
        einstall || die
        insinto /etc/splashy || die
        doins themes || die
        dodoc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog HACKING INSTALL NEWS README TODO || die
}

pkg_postinst() {
        pkg_postinst
}

My make error :-

then mv -f ".deps/splashy-splashy_functions.Tpo" ".deps/splashy-splashy_functions.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/splashy-splashy_functions.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wall -Werror -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -DG_DISABLE_CHECKS -o splashy -all-static -static-libgcc -Wl,-uIDirectFBFont_Default -Wl,-uIDirectFBFont_FT2 -Wl,-uIDirectFBImageProvider_PNG splashy-splashy_main.o splashy-splashy_functions.o libsplashycnf.la libsplashy.la -lpthread -lm -lglib-2.0 -static /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/systems/libdirectfb_fbdev.o /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/wm/libdirectfbwm_default.o /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/interfaces/IDirectFBFont/libidirectfbfont_ft2.o -lfreetype /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/interfaces/IDirectFBFont/libidirectfbfont_default.o /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/interfaces/IDirectFBImageProvider/libidirectfbimageprovider_png.o -lpng -lz -lm /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/inputdrivers/libdirectfb_keyboard.o -L/usr/lib -ldirectfb -lfusion -ldirect -lpthread -lz
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wall -Werror -DG_DISABLE_ASSERT -DG_DISABLE_CHECKS -o splashy -static -static-libgcc -Wl,-uIDirectFBFont_Default -Wl,-uIDirectFBFont_FT2 -Wl,-uIDirectFBImageProvider_PNG splashy-splashy_main.o splashy-splashy_functions.o /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/systems/libdirectfb_fbdev.o /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/wm/libdirectfbwm_default.o /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/interfaces/IDirectFBFont/libidirectfbfont_ft2.o /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/interfaces/IDirectFBFont/libidirectfbfont_default.o /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/interfaces/IDirectFBImageProvider/libidirectfbimageprovider_png.o /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/inputdrivers/libdirectfb_keyboard.o ./.libs/libsplashycnf.a ./.libs/libsplashy.a /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/splashy-0.3.6/work/splashy-0.3.6/src/.libs/libsplashycnf.a /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a /usr/lib/libfreetype.a /usr/lib/libpng12.a -lm -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libdirectfb.a /usr/lib/libfusion.a /usr/lib/libdirect.a -ldl -lpthread -lz
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o): In function `g_get_any_init_do':
(.text+0x121b): warning: Using 'getpwuid' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o): In function `g_get_any_init_do':
(.text+0x120e): warning: Using 'setpwent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o): In function `g_get_any_init_do':
(.text+0x1227): warning: Using 'endpwent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o): In function `g_get_any_init_do':
(.text+0x10cf): warning: Using 'getpwnam_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o): In function `g_get_any_init_do':
(.text+0x1117): warning: Using 'getpwuid_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/libdirect.a(log.o): In function `parse_host_addr':
(.text+0x231): warning: Using 'getaddrinfo' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/systems/libdirectfb_fbdev.o: In function `directfb_fbdev':
(.text+0x4c1c): undefined reference to `sysfs_get_mnt_path'
/usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/systems/libdirectfb_fbdev.o: In function `directfb_fbdev':
(.text+0x4cb5): undefined reference to `sysfs_open_class_device'
/usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/systems/libdirectfb_fbdev.o: In function `directfb_fbdev':
(.text+0x4cc7): undefined reference to `sysfs_get_classdev_device'
/usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/systems/libdirectfb_fbdev.o: In function `directfb_fbdev':
(.text+0x4ce1): undefined reference to `sysfs_get_device_attr'
/usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/systems/libdirectfb_fbdev.o: In function `directfb_fbdev':
(.text+0x4d18): undefined reference to `sysfs_get_device_attr'
/usr/lib/directfb-0.9.25/systems/libdirectfb_fbdev.o: In function `directfb_fbdev':
(.text+0x4db2): undefined reference to `sysfs_close_class_device'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [splashy] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/splashy-0.3.6/work/splashy-0.3.6/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/splashy-0.3.6/work/splashy-0.3.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2

hoyanf · Post by **hoyanf** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:27 pm

Found the compile error due to "sysfs" use flag when compilling DirectFB... So do not use sysfs use flag when compilling DirectFB...
I'll make the necessary adjustments to the ebuild...

hoyanf · Post by **hoyanf** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:23 pm

The stable ebuild i've done :-

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# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

inherit autotools eutils multilib

WANT_AUTOMAKE="latest"
WANT_AUTOCONF="latest"

DESCRIPTION="Splashy is a next generation boot splashing system for Linux systems."
HOMEPAGE="http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/start"
SRC_URI="http://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/2169/${P}.tar.gz"

LICENSE="GPL-2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
RESTRICT="nomirror"

IUSE="debug"

RDEPEND=">=sys-devel/autoconf-2.5.9
        >=sys-devel/automake-1.9
        >=sys-devel/libtool-1.5
        sys-process/procps
        >=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.14.0
        >=dev-libs/DirectFB-0.9.22
        >=dev-libs/glib-2
        media-libs/jpeg
        media-libs/libpng"

DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"

pkg_setup() {
        if built_with_use dev-libs/DirectFB sysfs; then
        ewarn "Please recompile DirectFB without sysfs"
        die "recompile DirectFB with USE=\"-sysfs\""
        fi
}

src_compile() {
        eautoreconf || die
        econf \
                $(use_enable debug ) \
                || die "econf"
        # Dropping jobserver to -j1 to prevent make complaining of unfinished jobs
        emake -j1 || die "emake"
}

src_install() {
        emake DESTDIR=\"\${D}\" install || die
        insinto /etc/splashy || die
        doins themes || die
        dodoc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog HACKING INSTALL NEWS README TODO || die
}

pkg_postinst() {
        pkg_postinst
        ewarn "Please do not report any bugs to Gentoo Bugzilla"
        elog "Splashy user forum http://alioth.debian.org/forum/?group_id=30657"
        elog "Splashy bug reporting http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?group_id=30657"
}

Feel free to try out...

Regards
hoyanf

-SPM-Mad · Post by **-SPM-Mad** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:55 pm

How many of you have tested this ebuild? I would open an ebuild request bugreport if the author of this ebuild still exists - and then he could post it there.

Greetings
-SPM-Mad

hoyanf · Post by **hoyanf** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:19 am

-SPM-Mad wrote:How many of you have tested this ebuild? I would open an ebuild request bugreport if the author of this ebuild still exists - and then he could post it there.

Greetings
-SPM-Mad

So far I've got no replies for it... Maybe you could give it a shot before posting it to Bugzilla..