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hi guys,
i tried to install fbsplash follow the wiki :http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gensplash
but it didn't work
then i use the kernel26fbcondecor and fbsplash from AUR :http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fbsplash
when boot with kernel26fbcondecor, there are some error messages :"fbsplash-functions line23: /lib/splash/cache/MAX_STEPS: No such file", and fbsplash still not works
what shoule i do?
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Try splashy. Both are a little broken.
Splash in arch sucks.
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thanks
but i want a graphic console like this :
splashy can't do that
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True, but that part of fbsplash is problematic.
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en....
may be i should try gentoo...
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Men, what did i do wrong? I tried to install Splashy (read about it in ArchWiki), and my system crashed and refused to boot. Did everything as described.
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sharsma, you understand "but it didn't work" doesn't tell anything.
What exactly didn't work? What did dmesg say, what exactly you tried??
fbcondecor works for me (when I use a fb console) so I wonder wht your problems are?
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i had the same problem, try creating /lib/splash/cache directory if it's not created.
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The splash packages are rubbish. Someone who knows what he is doing needs to take over them.
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very thanks to you, "but it didn't work" means it just can't work, no error meaasges, looks like i never install it.
so.. would you tell me how to make fbsplash work correctly step by step? thanks again!
sharsma, you understand "but it didn't work" doesn't tell anything.
What exactly didn't work? What did dmesg say, what exactly you tried??
fbcondecor works for me (when I use a fb console) so I wonder wht your problems are?
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thanks
but i want a graphic console like this :
http://www.linux-wiki.cn/images/b/bf/De … splash.jpgsplashy can't do that
yea, i want that too
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The splash packages are rubbish. Someone who knows what he is doing needs to take over them.
The packages kernel26fbcondecor and fbsplash in AUR don't really work right now.
I'm not quite sure, if I know, what I'm doing, but I've adopted kernel26fbcondecor and fbsplash in the hope, I can find out, why this is such a problem on Arch. I mean, I don't have any problems with both on Gentoo, only on Arch. But if it runs on Gentoo, it must be able to run on Arch, too.
My guess is, that it has something to do with the kernel configuration, but I could find only one or two possible problems, but fixing these, doesn't fix the splash problems.
My second guess is, that the problem is in the initrd, which is created by mkinitcpio. I checked the script splash_geninitramfs, but I again found only one or two differences between this script and the install script for the fbsplash HOOK. I'll take a deeper look into this.
It doesn't belong directly to this topic, but does anyone know, how to mount the initrds, which are created by mkinitcpio and splash_geninitramfs? Then I could check the resulting initrds directly.
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Initramfs
Also, check comments http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11474
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