THIS DOES NOT WORK - USplash Step by Step

spookykid · 2007-01-20 13:09:44

Ok, based on my own experience i decided to put up a little guide for some others who would be interested in installing Usplash could just do that without much pain :?

STEP 1:
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get http://archlinux.org/~james/usplash/ini … pkg.tar.gz
get
http://archlinux.org/~james/usplash/usp … pkg.tar.gz
get http://archlinux.org/~james/usplash/usp … pkg.tar.gz

STEP 2:
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As root type: cp /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf_my_backup
Go to where you downloaded the files from step1 and type: pacman -A usplash-0.4.33-1.pkg.tar.gz initscripts-usplash-0.8-2.pkg.tar.gz
pacman -A usplash-artwork-ubuntu-0.6-1.pkg.tar.gz
cp /etc/rc.conf_my_backup /etc/rc.conf

STEP 3:
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Edit your boot loader configuration file.
GRUB => nano /boot/grub/menu.lst and add "splash" to your kernel boot options and add "quiet" if you don't want to see status text (without quotes).
Edit mkinitcpio file
nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and add "usplash" to mkinitcpio HOOKs, after "autodetect"

STEP 4:
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Regenerate initcpio with mkinitcpio -v -g /boot/kernel26.img

STEP 5:
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Reboot and when you are booting you'll (hopefully ) see ubuntu logo with a progress bar.

Last edited by spookykid (2007-08-09 21:36:02)

hacosta · 2007-01-20 20:32:47

good.. perhaps a wiki entry?

iphitus · 2007-01-20 21:34:04

shouldnt need to manually backup rc.conf, pacman will do that.

picpak · 2007-01-20 22:04:39

It also backs up rc.local and inittab.

This didn't work for me

hacosta · 2007-01-21 02:17:56

can usplash be used without an initrd?

caust1c · 2007-01-21 14:09:02

i get a kernelpanic (after loading hook filesystems)

arkanoid · 2007-01-21 20:59:34

well, it almost works...

i got the shutdown usplash, but nothing at boot time

maybe i miss something in my :
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/inittab
/etc/local.conf

because actually I just deleted the ones from initscript-usplash to replace by the .pacsave backup.

shouldn't it be better (and upgrade safe) just to point on the line to add to the init scripts instead of replacing it ?

arkanoid · 2007-01-21 21:46:50

ok it works now... i've got a nice ubuntu logo !!

actually i had generated my mkinitcpio in /boot/grub instead of /boot :oops:

time to watch at the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/USpla … ationHowto

thanks for posting this my laptop is more sexy now.!

arkanoid · 2007-01-22 00:48:58

Sooo.. after a few hours messing with the default ubuntu theme, I've done a little draft of an arch theme:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=223562#223562

spookykid · 2007-01-22 01:44:29

Maybe this should be move User contributions instead of Arch discussion. Can anybody move it?

picpak · 2007-01-22 01:59:53

Here's the error I get on boot:

/sys/class/graphics/fb0/virtual_size: no such file or directory
bogl_init failed: opening /dev/fb0: no such file or directory
screen init failed

spookykid · 2007-01-22 21:16:12

you had gensplash installed?

tomtom · 2007-01-22 22:17:02

Here's the error I get on boot:
Code:
/sys/class/graphics/fb0/virtual_size: no such file or directory
bogl_init failed: opening /dev/fb0: no such file or directory
screen init failed

i have the same problem and gensplash is not installed..... :?:

phrakture · 2007-01-22 22:34:29

You probably need to be running in framebuffer mode, which actually requires a vga= or video= kernel param, if I'm not mistaken. Without those, it uses the default output and doesn't actually create a fb device.

picpak · 2007-01-23 00:30:26

spookykid wrote:

you had gensplash installed?

Tried to once, couldn't get it working. vga= and video= don't work.

spookykid · 2007-01-23 11:55:29

Hi all, i've finished my theme for Arch you can download it from here www.spookykid.net/extra/usplash-theme-arch.so.tar.gz file size = 867 kbs
All standard resolutions are working (e.g. 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768) for a preview how it looks like go here www.spookykid.net/extra/archlinux.png file size = 416 kbs
Try it and tell me what you think of it.

To install this:
1- extract compressed file and from where you''ve decompressed the file type as root cp usplash-theme-arch.so /etc/usplash/usplash-artwork-ubuntu.so

2- mkinitcpio -v -g /boot/kernel26.img

3- reboot and this time you'll see (hopefully ) the archlinux logo

P.S. - Don't forget to add vga=791 to your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst to change resolution.

arkanoid · 2007-01-23 13:06:02

it looks real nice, what did you use for the 3d ?

I have to post mine too, but I'm still looking for the way to make the .pkg that can install the theme with another name that the ubuntu one.

Some clue ?

baze · 2007-01-23 13:53:37

usplash only supports 4:3 modes, right? so no 1280*1024 for my tft

dongiovanni · 2007-01-23 14:58:59

Realy? It supports only 4:3 resolution? This resolution is very often used...then, in my opinion, usplash isn't a very goo solution for getting a splash...

arkanoid · 2007-01-23 15:34:09

Imo it doesn't really matter very much as it doesn't rely on your X server resolution. In my case I have a 1280x800 res and a 1024x768 framebuffer at startup and it works fine.

baze · 2007-01-23 16:19:33

but it can look ugly on tfts when you don't use the native resolution, which is 1280*1024 for 19" displays. that's why 4:3 only sucks

dongiovanni · 2007-01-23 16:26:32

Yeah, thats right! It is also mostly the native resolution of the 17" tft displays and it looks realy ugly, if you use 1024x768!

spookykid · 2007-01-23 16:47:17

baze, my monitor only does 4:3 i can't see how it looks under other resolutions so i just can't adjust it for other resolutions, maybe you can adjust the image size to that and send it to me and i'll happily include it in the theme.

arkanoid, you can change the file name just read one of the last posts in here http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread. … ht=usplash it explains everything.

i'd like to say that i didn't created the logo on this theme it was done by PJ. i've just used it because i didn't liked the original logo you can find it here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=27510

cybe100777 · 2007-01-29 15:20:33

Got it to work nicely, and almost completely silently by adding "silent" to grub's settings (in addition to quiet in the kernel line).

Still still had some ACPI stuff and putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument popping up on the screen. I added a acpi=off to the kernel parameters to get rid of the acpi message (and ACPI... but don't know how much it's needed on my system)

Some threads about this "putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument" on the net but I didn't get much wiser...

lucke · 2007-01-29 15:23:54

Do you have CONSOLEFONT set (properly?) in /etc/rc.conf?

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