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hash

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-07-31

Posts: 111

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

It fixes the black-screen issue for me Thanks a lot! You're awesome!

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

It fixes the black-screen issue for me Thanks a lot! You're awesome!

I just stumbled over this by accident, but thank you very much for the compliment !

PirateJonno

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 372

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

@PirateJonno:
I tried your new theme and noticed that you have stolen my long standing idea of using a reverse progress bar on shutdown.

hehe , not really my idea anyway i've definitely seen it before somewhere.

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.

You mean just with the logo? or with an extra progress bar? the documentation for themes is pretty good at the berlios site but I could do a mockup if you want.

Just one suggestion for your next update: You might darken the verbose background a little bit, so the foreground could be seen better.

Good idea, I don't actually have fbcondecor anymore so i've never tested the verbose background .

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kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

@PirateJonno:
I tried your new theme and noticed that you have stolen my long standing idea of using a reverse progress bar on shutdown.

hehe , not really my idea anyway i've definitely seen it before somewhere.

That happens always to me if i have some idea: it's already there.

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.

You mean just with the logo? or with an extra progress bar? the documentation for themes is pretty good at the berlios site but I could do a mockup if you want.

Don't bother - your theme is to much klingon style anyway for me.
You might try to mod the darch theme making a double progress bar left and right of the logo if that is possible and you get bored.

Just one suggestion for your next update: You might darken the verbose background a little bit, so the foreground could be seen better.

Good idea, I don't actually have fbcondecor anymore so i've never tested the verbose background .

Tip: I just kept my old fbcondecor 2.6.28 (with firmware removed) for testing beside the stock kernel and bumped the nvidia package.

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

For the newest version of the scripts have a look at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26039
Changelog provided !

edit: Added a short list of features to the AUR comments.

Last edited by kujub (2009-04-30 17:20:29)

mini

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 132

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

The splash switches from silent to verbose splash again, when switching from runlevel S to 3.
How can I fix this?

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

The splash switches from silent to verbose splash again, when switching from runlevel S to 3.
How can I fix this?

If you see something like this

:: Starting Syslog-NG                                                                     [FAIL]

and don't want be kicked to tty1: There is a setting for you in /etc/conf.d/fbsplash

mini

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 132

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

I have not got any FAIL.
What I should check in /etc/conf.d/fbsplash

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

I have not got any FAIL.
What I should check in /etc/conf.d/fbsplash

You could try with

SPLASH_VERBOSE_ON_ERRORS="no"

but if you've got no FAIL i can see no reason for this because all stuff triggering verbose mode is in stat_fail() in /etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash.sh. Do you use pkgver 24 ? Which was the latest working ? Did you change or install any other things ?

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

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Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

Ar you able to switch back to silent using F2 ?

kujub

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Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

New version 25 - Fixed a typo in inithooks.

mini: I don't know if this fixes your problem. Does it really happen right after sysinit ? Do you have

SPLASH_STAY_SILENT="yes"

in your /etc/conf.d/fbsplash ?

mini

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 132

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

I have change to
SPLASH_VERBOSE_ON_ERRORS="no"
and now the splash not switches from silent to verbose splash again, but I do not understand why since I have not got any FAIL.
I am able to switch back to silent using F2.
BTW. The splash starts very late, after the udev has started. Is this normally?

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

I have change to
SPLASH_VERBOSE_ON_ERRORS="no"
and now the splash not switches from silent to verbose splash again, but I do not understand why since I have not got any FAIL.

Preparing a new version for testing this...

BTW. The splash starts very late, after the udev has started. Is this normally?

You could try with

SPLASH_START_EARLY="yes"

But that is experimental stuff.

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

mini: Please try with pkgver 26 using

SPLASH_VERBOSE_ON_ERRORS="yes"
SPLASH_DISABLE_SVC_EVENTS="yes"

mini

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 132

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

The splash starts earkier now with
SPLASH_START_EARLY="yes"

@kujub
I could find
SPLASH_DISABLE_SVC_EVENTS
in the new pkgver 26

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

@kujub
I could find
SPLASH_DISABLE_SVC_EVENTS
in the new pkgver 26

Sorry, i don't understand.

hash

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-07-31

Posts: 111

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

I guess he COULDN'T find SPLASH_DISABLE_SVC_EVENTS.
@mini
That's because fbsplash from pkgver 26 is saved as fbsplash.pacnew. You should follow the instructions from install script and merge fbsplash with fbsplash.pacnew

mini

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 132

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

@hash Thank you, I have fixed the fbsplash.

I have one question more. The progress bar is going at ones to 100%. How can I fix this?

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

@hash Thank you, I have fixed the fbsplash.

I have one question more. The progress bar is going at ones to 100%. How can I fix this?

How did you solve the problem ? Did the new option the trick ? If so, what exact theme package do you use ?
The number of steps is counted each time the splash progress is running and stored in /etc/splash/fbsplash_bootsteps and /etc/splash/fbsplash_shutdownsteps. Each message [BUSY]->[DONE] is counted as one step. So if you don't change your configuration or use a different runlevel this should fix itself on next boot.

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

New version 27.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26039

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

New version 34 aka 2.0.1.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26039

kujub

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Registered: 2008-10-12

Posts: 43

Re: fbcondecor vs. practicality

New version 38 aka 2.1.1.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26039