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sharsma

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Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 4

fbsplash problems

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?

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: fbsplash problems

Try splashy. Both are a little broken.
Splash in arch sucks.

sharsma

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Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 4

Re: fbsplash problems

thanks

but i want a graphic console like this :

splashy can't do that

SpookyET

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Re: fbsplash problems

True, but that part of fbsplash is problematic.

sharsma

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Registered: 2008-04-24

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Re: fbsplash problems

en....

may be i should try gentoo...

part1zan_

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Registered: 2008-04-05

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Re: fbsplash problems

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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damjan

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Registered: 2006-05-30

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Re: fbsplash problems

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?

nonx

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Registered: 2005-08-23

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Re: fbsplash problems

i had the same problem, try creating /lib/splash/cache directory if it's not created.

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SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

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Re: fbsplash problems

The splash packages are rubbish. Someone who knows what he is doing needs to take over them.

sharsma

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Registered: 2008-04-24

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Re: fbsplash problems

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?

3nd3r

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Re: fbsplash problems

thanks

but i want a graphic console like this :
http://www.linux-wiki.cn/images/b/bf/De … splash.jpg

splashy can't do that

yea, i want that too

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cyberpatrol

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-11-22

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Re: fbsplash problems

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.

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

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Re: fbsplash problems

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Initramfs

Also, check comments http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11474

Last edited by SpookyET (2008-05-04 14:42:31)