splashutils vs. plymouth on OpenRC, grub-themes

[Massimo B.]

Years ago I always had nice splashutils with a verbose background for the booting sequence and all terminals. These days are gone for a long time now, as splashutils does not emerge. Doesn't it have any maintainer? Is there any chance to get it built?

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common.c:(.text+0xb7): undefined reference to `makedev'  

Gentoo has become a quite dark and pale world these days. Even if functionality counts the look-like is always a catcher also for new users. Every distribution has its artwork, and you need the framework to display it.

However I tried that plymouth. Too bad it only has a few themes. For creating an initramfs there is only genkernel-next or dracut. I was always using genkernel.
Ok, I switched to genkernel-next, merged the configuration and created the initramfs. However it fails to open my LUKS as it seems that all modules where missing at creation:
https://github.com/Sabayon/genkernel-next/issues/55
This genkernel-next fork is focussing on systemd, but should still work on OpenRC.
What about dracut, which is also focussing on systemd, is that a recommendation on OpenRC?

To get at least some color on the booting terminal, I tried setting up some grub theme:

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# grep -v "^#" /etc/default/grub 
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Gentoo"
GRUB_DEFAULT="saved"
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="keymap=de splash crypt_root=UUID=e609e76c-419f-4677-ff00-872290730e6f root=LABEL=gentoo dobtrfs"
GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080x32
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub/themes/starfield/theme.txt"
GRUB_BACKGROUND="/etc/splash/livecd-2007.0/images/verbose-1920x1200.png"
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm"

The resolution is not set, it is even worse than without gfxterm. I also tried without GFXMODE as this should also choose a resolution automatically. Same result.
However when starting grub I get an error:

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I'm booting from SD card and that has enough space left:

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# df -h |grep boot
/dev/mmcblk0p1         1,9G   65M  1,7G   4% /boot

[nollo]

I am still using spashutils with a beautiful PLF theme from the ages of Mandriva and it works perfectly

[Massimo B.]

Are you able to build splashutils with a recent portage right now? I filed a bugreport about splahutils: [bug]631062[/bug]

[cboldt]

I have had to "USE=-truetype" for media-gfx/splashutils since I don't remember when, but with that, it emerges just fine.

[Massimo B.]

Does not build with USE="-truetype" either:

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  CC      fbcondecor_helper-image.o
  CC      fbcondecor_helper-effects.o
daemon_cmd.c: In function ‘cmd_log’:
daemon_cmd.c:367:3: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘list_ringadd’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
   list_ringadd(&theme->msglog, strndup(args[0], theme->log_cols));
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~
daemon.c: In function ‘thf_switch_ttymon’:
daemon.c:506:3: warning: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
   read(fd_tty[config.tty_s], &ret, 1);
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
daemon.c: In function ‘daemon_start’:
daemon.c:682:2: warning: ignoring return value of ‘chdir’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
  chdir("/");
  ^~~~~~~~~~
  CREATE  libfbsplash.pc
  CREATE  libfbsplashrender.pc
./.libs/libfbsplashrender.a(libfbsplashrender_la-common.o): In function `dev_create':
common.c:(.text+0xb7): undefined reference to `makedev'

[nollo]

Yes I can compile splashutils
my use

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USE="gpm png truetype -fbcondecor -hardened"

I do not use fbcondecor nor uvesafb but vesafb so i put in my /etc/default/grub

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video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap vga=795 console=tty1 splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:PLF5

[CaptainBlood]

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 eix splashutils
[I] media-gfx/splashutils
     Available versions:  1.5.4.4-r7^t {fbcondecor gpm hardened +png +truetype}
     Installed versions:  1.5.4.4-r7^t(14:18:22 06/08/2017)(fbcondecor gpm png truetype -hardened)

gcc-6.4, ld-2.28.1=bfd.
Thks 4 ur attention.

[duby2291]

Does not build with USE="-truetype" either:

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  CC      fbcondecor_helper-image.o
  CC      fbcondecor_helper-effects.o
daemon_cmd.c: In function ‘cmd_log’:
daemon_cmd.c:367:3: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘list_ringadd’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
   list_ringadd(&theme->msglog, strndup(args[0], theme->log_cols));
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~
daemon.c: In function ‘thf_switch_ttymon’:
daemon.c:506:3: warning: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
   read(fd_tty[config.tty_s], &ret, 1);
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
daemon.c: In function ‘daemon_start’:
daemon.c:682:2: warning: ignoring return value of ‘chdir’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
  chdir("/");
  ^~~~~~~~~~
  CREATE  libfbsplash.pc
  CREATE  libfbsplashrender.pc
./.libs/libfbsplashrender.a(libfbsplashrender_la-common.o): In function `dev_create':
common.c:(.text+0xb7): undefined reference to `makedev'

I just wanted to chime in to this thread and say I'm experiencing this too. You have to set -fbcondecor unfortunately. I like the frame buffer decorations though. And I wonder if it's possible for a programmer to duplicate this? Ultimately I'm just hoping for frame buffer decorations.

EDIT: Oops, I think I spoke a bit too soon, actually it didn't compile with -fbcondecor either. This is the exact compile error I'm receiving.

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  CREATE  libfbsplash.pc
  CREATE  libfbsplashrender.pc
  LD      fbcondecor_helper
./.libs/libfbsplashrender.so: undefined reference to `makedev'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [Makefile:1001: splash_util] Error 1
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
./.libs/libfbsplashrender.so: undefined reference to `makedev'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [Makefile:997: fbsplashd] Error 1
./.libs/libfbsplashrender.a(libfbsplashrender_la-common.o): In function `dev_create':
common.c:(.text+0xaf): undefined reference to `makedev'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [Makefile:993: fbsplashctl] Error 1
make[3]: *** [Makefile:1475: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: *** [Makefile:691: all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:441: all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:372: all] Error 2

[Massimo B.]

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[Elleni]

Inspired by the original poster, I decided to give splashutils, fbsplash a new try as me too years ago had this running. It installed flawlessly, even with fbcondecor and truetype USE flags.

Added SPLASH_THEME="livedvd-12.0" in /etc/conf.d/splash, added fbcondecor in boot runlevel, modified

/etc/default/grub accordingly

GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1920x1080
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="linux mtrr:3,ywrap console=tty1 splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:livedvd-12.0"
GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub/themes/gentoo-grub-themes-master/gentoo_frosted/theme.txt"

Checked that framebuffere was set correctly in kernel (radeon in my case), downloaded and setup grub2 theme too, and fired grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

All good. Besides this https://bugs.gentoo.org/467936.