[split] fbsplash & mkinitcpio

dtw · 2006-05-16 14:48:56

I just wanted to add, in light of other developments, that I am now fully satisfied with the decision to include the hooks in the pkg. Largely because a) how are they different to including an rc.d script? b) I won't have to maintain it and can just focus on working the port.

By the way, can anyone get splashutils to build at all at the moment - I'm getting some very vague errors!

_Gandalf_ · 2006-05-16 17:00:47

dtw, you need the kernel patch i talk to you about, otherwise you will never get splashtils compiled, here's a copy of the patch if you don't have it http://wael.nasreddine.com/trash/input-fixes.patch.1 Apply this patch to your kernel (tested with 2.6.16) and it will be good

dtw · 2006-05-16 17:53:34

_Gandalf_ wrote:

dtw, you need the kernel patch i talk to you about, otherwise you will never get splashtils compiled, here's a copy of the patch if you don't have it http://wael.nasreddine.com/trash/input-fixes.patch.1 Apply this patch to your kernel (tested with 2.6.16) and it will be good

Whoops - I forgot! Should that patch not go directly into stock beyond kernel? I assume that is what gensplash will be built against when it is moved to [extra]? Or is there something that can a safely be done in the PKGBUILD? Surely patching the source on the fly is a bad idea?

iphitus · 2006-05-17 08:13:13

_Gandalf_ wrote:

dtw, you need the kernel patch i talk to you about, otherwise you will never get splashtils compiled, here's a copy of the patch if you don't have it http://wael.nasreddine.com/trash/input-fixes.patch.1 Apply this patch to your kernel (tested with 2.6.16) and it will be good

Does this need to be added to beyond3? I'm pretty sure that was included in the latest vesafb update (the one used in beyond3), but I could be wrong...

James

_Gandalf_ · 2006-05-19 18:57:39

@ Iphitus yes it is needed for both beyond and stock kernel...

iphitus · 2006-05-20 02:18:13

_Gandalf_ wrote:

@ Iphitus yes it is needed for both beyond and stock kernel...

Expect it in beyond4...

damjan · 2006-05-30 01:42:25

_Gandalf_ wrote:

dtw, you need the kernel patch i talk to you about, otherwise you will never get splashtils compiled, here's a copy of the patch if you don't have it http://wael.nasreddine.com/trash/input-fixes.patch.1 Apply this patch to your kernel (tested with 2.6.16) and it will be good

What does this patch do?

BTW I've had splashutils compiled in Slackware without this or other patches in the kernel.

_Gandalf_ · 2006-05-30 01:51:50

This patch fix a bug in kernel headers precisely input headers, Below the reply from Michal Januszewski The author of gensplash about this error a month ago

Michal Januszewski wrote:

This is a problem with the kernel headers. In order to get splashutils
to compile, you'll need to patch your kernel source tree with:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi? … ction=view
or a similar patch.

Of course i re-adapted the patch for 2.6.16 kernel u know just make it clean again and get it ready to patch no huge changes

dtw · 2006-05-30 10:03:24

As you may have guessed I have finally managed to get splashutils to build. Thanks Gandalf for some fine help. I had to use an older version of make, rebuild klibc from [testing] against my running kernel and use -beyond4 to get the patches described above. Phew. James, take note

iphitus · 2006-05-30 11:32:20

dtw wrote:

As you may have guessed I have finally managed to get splashutils to build. Thanks Gandalf for some fine help. I had to use an older version of make, rebuild klibc from [testing] against my running kernel and use -beyond4 to get the patches described above. Phew. James, take note

did you add the patch yourself?.... I'm sure I included it in beyond4, take a look at the series/broken out.

James

_Gandalf_ · 2006-05-30 12:19:17

Yea dtw as i told you make 3.81 does not love gensplashutils makefiles for some reason or another , And you're most wecome

@iphitus yes it is included

dtw · 2006-05-30 20:22:05

iphitus wrote:

dtw wrote:
use -beyond4 to get the patches described above.
I'm sure I included it in beyond4

waldek_a · 2006-06-29 19:52:18

I downloaded Gandalf's scripts, put

FBTHEMEDIR="/etc/splash/"
FBTHEMES="ChromaticBlue"
FBRES="1024x768"

into /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

and modified /lib/initcpio/install/fbsplash in the following way (it was not able to find the pics and font):

add_file "${pic}"
add_file "${icon}"
add_file "${font}"
add_file "${font}"

to

add_file "${FBTHEMEDIR}/${theme}/${pic}"
add_file "${FBTHEMEDIR}/${theme}/${icon}"
add_file "${FBTHEMEDIR}/${theme}/${font}"
add_file "${FBTHEMEDIR}/${theme}/${font}"

and it works fine. Thanks a lot.

waldek

phrakture · 2006-06-29 21:02:17

I can't recall if the newest mkinitcpio includes this change, or if it's only in SVN, but you can also do something like:

add_full_dir "${FBTHEMEDIR}/${theme}"

to simplify it

dtw · 2006-07-01 11:20:11

Phrak - do I need to add anything to gensplashutils for mkinitcpio?

deficite · 2006-07-01 16:25:31

dtw wrote:

_Gandalf_ wrote:
dtw, you need the kernel patch i talk to you about, otherwise you will never get splashtils compiled, here's a copy of the patch if you don't have it http://wael.nasreddine.com/trash/input-fixes.patch.1 Apply this patch to your kernel (tested with 2.6.16) and it will be good
Whoops - I forgot! Should that patch not go directly into stock beyond kernel? I assume that is what gensplash will be built against when it is moved to [extra]? Or is there something that can a safely be done in the PKGBUILD? Surely patching the source on the fly is a bad idea?

But not everybody using beyond uses fbsplash. We CAN'T do that!

I'm glad you guys worked all that out and I'm glad at the outcome

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