fbcondecor vs. practicality

kujub · 2009-04-23 08:58:12

What happens if you set

SPLASH_MESSAGE_BOOTED=""

in your fbsplash.conf ?

What happens if you set

STAY_SILENT="no"

in your fbsplash.conf ?

hash · 2009-04-23 09:13:04

The only difference that i've noticed is that it kicks me to tty1 after KDM starts and then after a while it switches to KDM. The black screen issue still happens though.

I've recorded short video of this (sorry for the low quality - i was using my cell phone ).
http://omploader.org/vMWtkZQ/Film0007.3gp

kujub · 2009-04-23 09:24:16

Sorry, but can not track this down of you don't follow me step by step.
Please try with

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng fbsplash)

and

STAY_SILENT="yes"
SPLASH_MESSAGE_BOOTED=""

And after that try

STAY_SILENT="no"

Last edited by kujub (2009-04-23 09:24:46)

kujub · 2009-04-23 09:40:33

@hash:
Just an idea, could you please edit your /sbin/splash-functions-arch.sh and change

    splash_comm_send "paint"

to

    splash_comm_send "repaint"

The line appears two times. Please change both.

If that does not help, please let me know what

cat /proc/cmdline

says.

Last edited by kujub (2009-04-23 09:42:11)

hash · 2009-04-23 09:47:11

Okay, 1st scenario:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng fbsplash)

and

STAY_SILENT="yes"
SPLASH_MESSAGE_BOOTED=""

Loading initramfs -> Splash screen -> 70% blink (black screen) -> progress bar appears again -> whole splash screen appears again and stays at 100% until i decide to switch to tty.

2nd scenario:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng fbsplash)

and

STAY_SILENT="no"
SPLASH_MESSAGE_BOOTED=""

Loading initramfs -> Splash screen -> 70% blink (black screen) -> progress bar appears again -> whole splash screen appears again and it loads till 100% -> im being kicked to tty1.

I'll edit /sbin/splash-functions-arch.sh and report back once i'll test it.

EDIT:
I've changed those two lines and now after this "blink" whole splash screen appears immedietaly (instead of progress bar -> few seconds -> whole splash screen).
Here is what cat /proc/cmdline says:
root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/17b2c298-499b-4f3a-b0ad-d53f75300396 ro quiet vga=792 console=tty1 splash=silent,theme:arch-black

Last edited by hash (2009-04-23 10:01:20)

kujub · 2009-04-23 10:32:46

Could you try with darch theme ?

If this does not solve it, please try again with the fbsplash revision you used before this problem appeared to be sure this problem was not introduced by something else.

hash · 2009-04-23 10:37:41

kujub wrote:

Could you try with darch theme ?
If this does not solve it, please try again with the fbsplash revision you used before this problem appeared to be sure this problem was not introduced by something else.

I've already tried with darch theme - same thing.
I've started using fbsplash few days ago - 1.5.4.3-7, so there is no fbsplash version that worked for me.

kujub · 2009-04-23 10:45:34

Hmm than you should try 1.5.4.3-3 from AUR first, maybe with one line

options=( '!makeflags' )

added to PKGBUILD to fix build error.

PirateJonno · 2009-04-23 10:50:25

Just so you know what to look for, my theme's progress bar doesn't show up until fbsplash is properly initialised (i.e. after loopback interface). It might help to keep using darch until the issue is sorted anyway. Sorry I can't be of any more help

hash · 2009-04-23 10:56:28

kujub wrote:

Hmm than you should try 1.5.4.3-3 from AUR first, maybe with one line
options=( '!makeflags' )
added to PKGBUILD to fix build error.

Just tested it. Same thing (fbsplash starts much later, but i guess thats because -3 version isnt prepared for kernel without patch);/

I've checked comments for fbsplash in AUR and someone else also had this problem more than a year ago (too bad there is no solution)

Comment by: cyberpatrol on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:50:55 +0000
[...]But I have one small issue with this script. Some time during the boot process - I guess when the splash images are set - the splash disappears and the screen gets black for a short time, about a second.
It's not a big problem but not really nice. On my Gentoo box I don't have this problem.
Is it possible to fix this somehow?[...]

PirateJonno · 2009-04-23 10:57:43

Actually I'm wondering if this is a graphics card issue? What with kernel mode-setting being in the arch kernel now. What kind of card do you have?

EDIT: or not, if that's the same error

Last edited by PirateJonno (2009-04-23 10:58:36)

hash · 2009-04-23 11:03:20

PirateJonno wrote:

Actually I'm wondering if this is a graphics card issue? What with kernel mode-setting being in the arch kernel now. What kind of card do you have?
EDIT: or not, if that's the same error

I've got nvidia geforce 7600gt.

PirateJonno · 2009-04-23 11:05:50

hash wrote:

I've got nvidia geforce 7600gt.

Ok never mind, I'm on an 8600gt. Unless you're using nouveau or something but obviously not from /proc/cmdline.

kujub · 2009-04-23 11:08:36

@hash:
I'm on GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS
I use

root=/dev/sda6 ro resume=/dev/sda2 fbcon=scrollback:256k video=vesafb vga=792 logo.nologo quiet console=tty1 splash=silent,theme:darch

Which fb driver is loaded on your machine ?

edit:

cat /proc/fb 
0 VESA VGA

Last edited by kujub (2009-04-23 11:15:18)

hash · 2009-04-23 11:16:49

cat /proc/fb
0 VESA VGA

kujub · 2009-04-23 11:24:46

Sorry that seems to be a problem with your hardware or with splashutils itself.

hash · 2009-04-23 11:27:14

kujub wrote:

Sorry that seems to be a problem with your hardware or with splashutils itself.

OK, i'll have to live with this. Thanks for help anyways

kujub · 2009-04-23 11:28:52

Newest patch with some more fixes:
http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f395b774f

WARNING: Remove the carriage returns after downloading this file !

thoffmeyer · 2009-04-24 02:15:30

kujub, I took over this package in aur...

mini · 2009-04-24 05:52:37

What is the name in AUR?

kujub · 2009-04-24 10:05:02

Here comes the newest version of my patch.

http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f455e5b09

WARNING: Remove the carriage returns after downloading this file !

The scripts are nearly totally rewritten now looking and working to my satisfaction.
Please review and test !
Many thanks to everyone who helped with this !

@thoffmeyer:
OK, please review, test and upload my work if you like it

@mini: fbsplash

edit:
patch against pkgrel 11
http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f24fbe48f

WARNING: Remove the carriage returns after downloading this file !

Last edited by kujub (2009-04-24 10:08:43)

kujub · 2009-04-26 14:20:01

A new patch against pkgrel 12 with some late coming minor fixes and improvements for the initcpio stuff.

http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f410cf817

WARNING: Remove the carriage returns after downloading this file !

Please have a look at /etc/conf.d/fbsplash.conf[.pacnew] and do

mkinitcpio -p kernel26

again after installing this to take full advantage.

PirateJonno · 2009-04-27 03:30:40

pkgrel 12 with early start works fine on my computer, thanks a lot kujub. I'll update to 13 but I don't expect there'll be any new issues.

kujub · 2009-04-27 22:30:51

A new patch (again.)

This is against pkgrel 13 and brings some more cleaning and fixes.
Beside of that i added some improvements and an option for the be-kicked-to-the-verbose-screen-on-errors-thing and removed the dependency on gpm since that stuff isn't implemented in the scripts anyway by now.

http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=fc8e9fdc

WARNING: Remove the carriage returns after downloading this file !

Please have a look at /etc/conf.d/fbsplash.conf[.pacnew] after installing this.

@PirateJonno:
I tried your new theme and noticed that you have stolen my long standing idea of using a reverse progress bar on shutdown.
I think it would be even nicer to have it going bottom-up on boot and down again on shutdown, but i have no idea how to make this look good together with a centered logo.
Just one suggestion for your next update: You might darken the verbose background a little bit, so the foreground could be seen better.

kujub · 2009-04-28 08:23:45

Now that i spotted the reason for the problem that cyberpatrol and hash have i added some code to workaround splash going black because of CONSOLEFONT

This patch is against pkgrel 14

http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f1d11d4bb

WARNING: Remove the carriage returns after downloading this file !

@cyberpatrol
@hash
Please report if this solves your problem.

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