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kdotj

Member

Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 24

[fbsplash] Nothing after splash...

Hey people, I have been using Arch for about a week now and have been playing around with different bits a pieces. One of them is fbsplash.... I installed via yaourt and setup as explained in the fbsplash ArchWiki page. All seems to work well, it boot from GRUB to the fbsplash screen (I have the arch-black theme) and the loading bar at the bottom gets to 100%. However, then the screen goes blank with a flashing cursor in the top left. I leave it and nothing happens.... I am expecting the gdm to appear.

Here is my kernel line in GRUB:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro logo.nologo quiet nomodeset vga=792 console=tty1 splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:arch-black

Here is my /etc/conf.d/splash:

# /etc/conf.d/splash
#

####  initcpio and Fbsplash daemon  ##########################################

## Themes to include into initcpio
## For a smaller initcpio you may try theme cfg files instead of directories.
SPLASH_THEMES=(
    arch-black
)

## Override the initial silent splash screen status message defaults.
## Note: '$progress' will be replaced by Fbsplash itself.
## * initcpio - (no effect with fbcondecor kernel)
SPLASH_INIT_MESSAGE="Initializing the kernel"
## * bootup
SPLASH_BOOT_MESSAGE="Booting '$HOSTNAME' (\$progress%)"
## * reboot
SPLASH_REBOOT_MESSAGE="Rebooting '$HOSTNAME' (\$progress%)"
## * shutdown
SPLASH_SHUTDOWN_MESSAGE="Shutting down '$HOSTNAME' (\$progress%)"

## To show animations early, include the Fbsplash daemon (1.5 MiB) into initcpio, too,
## instead of the small helper only.
## Note: Themes with 'scripts/rc_init-pre' like 'arch-banner-icons' are not supported.
SPLASH_DAEMON="early"

## Make the splash daemon use fade effects.
## Note: The initcpio helper does only use the kernel parameter!
# SPLASH_EFFECTS="fadein,fadeout"
## Uggly hack to get that in from the kernel line :p
SPLASH_EFFECTS=$(e=();IFS=',';for w in $splash;do [[ $w == fade* ]]&&e+=($w);done;echo "${e[*]}")

## Enable the textbox when starting the Fbsplash daemon.
## Useful if the theme provides a message log or other textbox.
## The scripts write any initscripts [FAIL] messages to the log.
## Note: The textbox can also be toggled by pressing F3-key.
SPLASH_TEXTBOX="yes"

## Splash progress timeout
## If set to a positive value, Fbsplash will automatically switch to verbose
## mode if there is no progress for the specified number of seconds.
SPLASH_AUTOVERBOSE=0

####  scripts behaviour  #####################################################

## Change to verbose mode on any initscripts [FAIL] message
## Useful with very simple themes and also when starting Xorg from DAEMONS
SPLASH_VERBOSE_ON_ERRORS="no"

## Name of the DAEMONS script starting Xorg if any
## Set this to avoid virtual terminal change struggle between Xorg and Fbsplash.
#SPLASH_XSERVICE="gdm"
#SPLASH_XSERVICE="kdm"
#SPLASH_XSERVICE="xdm"
#SPLASH_XSERVICE="lxdm"
#SPLASH_XSERVICE="slim"

## Push initscripts [BUSY] messages to the splash status message line.
SPLASH_PUSH_MESSAGES="no"

# EOF #

And my HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (which was then built):

HOOKS="base udev fbsplash autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"

Any ideas on what I'm missing? Thanks in advance

Atragor

Member

Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 59

Re: [fbsplash] Nothing after splash...

Maybe you need to uncomment the line

#SPLASH_XSERVICE="gdm"

Cobaltounet

Member

Registered: 2010-11-10

Posts: 9

Re: [fbsplash] Nothing after splash...

Hello,

I have the exact same issue. Did you find a solution ?

In my case commenting / uncommenting

SPLASH_XSERVICE="kdm"

make me drop to a shell instead of having the black screen. I have the same results whether I launch kdm with DEAMONS or the /etc/inittab file.