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ftornell

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Registered: 2008-08-18

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Boot loading screen!

Hi,
Is it possible to make a loading screen instead of seeing services starting up, like a progress bar or something?

Prolly in the wiki but don't know what to search for!

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Archlinux x64

hacosta

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Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: Boot loading screen!

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ftornell

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Re: Boot loading screen!

Ok, thought that was for like grub and grome...

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Archlinux x64

Zariel

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 446

Re: Boot loading screen!

theres splashy, good guide is on the wiki for setting it up

Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 642

Re: Boot loading screen!

Splashy doesn't work for me. I think it's quite buggy. It shows it's background screen only during shutdown but never while starting up my Arch Linux.

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tinhtruong

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-12-18

Posts: 117

Re: Boot loading screen!

Hope someone will make PKGBUILD for plymouth (from Fedora) for Arch

JoshuaK

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From: Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-09-13

Posts: 66

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Re: Boot loading screen!

Splashy I have found to be very buggy on x86-64 systems. My Mandriva box will only show Splashy when it feels like it, and the F2 for verbose brings a translucent black box but no messages. Bootsplash requires kernel edits - two reasons I dont like this: 1) Im not geeky enough to figure out how to do it & 2) I like my kernels clean, even if there is a tool to do it for me. I actually have grown used to the services and tell my Ubuntu usplashes to show a progress report every time..... I like seeing what the system is doing. As for Plymouth, my nVidia 6200 does not agree with kernel modesetting anyway. RHGB was awesome, till Fedora 8/9's themes mucked it up (7's was awesome). So IMO I would stick with the service screen.

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b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

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Re: Boot loading screen!

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Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 642

Re: Boot loading screen!

Splashy I have found to be very buggy on x86-64 systems.

Why's that? Have you found some info on that matter somewhere in the Internet? I'm curious because I'm an Arch64 user and, as mentioned above, Splashy doesn't quite work for me

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smartboyathome

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Registered: 2007-12-23

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Re: Boot loading screen!

Splashy doesn't work for me. I think it's quite buggy. It shows it's background screen only during shutdown but never while starting up my Arch Linux.

Did you follow the steps in the wiki to the letter? I found that it worked for me if I did that. You might need uvesafb and 915resolution if you have an intel card, so that you can get the native resolution (Intel cards have buggy bios).

stefanwilkens

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From: Enschede, the Netherlands

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 624

Re: Boot loading screen!

Hope someone will make PKGBUILD for plymouth (from Fedora) for Arch

I think that requires kernel modesetting available in 2.6.29? Might be in the current rc.

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uncholowapo

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From: US

Registered: 2009-03-29

Posts: 238

Re: Boot loading screen!

Hope someone will make PKGBUILD for plymouth (from Fedora) for Arch

I think that requires kernel modesetting available in 2.6.29? Might be in the current rc.

No it's available in 2.6.27 but is disabled by default. I have come from Fedora 10 and it is cool when you enable it. Any ways I found the sources if anyone is willing to try it out and break their system for us since it is still in active development.

http://freedesktop.org/software/plymouth/releases/

twin

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From: Greece

Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 47

Re: Boot loading screen!

Does anybody know how to have a custom background show up behind the boot messages?

fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 745

Re: Boot loading screen!

Any greater chance we might see this in arch?

Regards

André

jondkent

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From: London

Registered: 2005-09-13

Posts: 123

Re: Boot loading screen!

Does anybody know how to have a custom background show up behind the boot messages?

Its all documented here --> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bootsplash

Dunno if it works, but worth trying out.  I don't use it myself.