On Sunday 10 October 2004 21:33, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: > Bluefuture wrote: > > In the meantime fbsplash will be officially introduced in debian, and > > the debian kernel maintainers introduce fbsplash patch in the official > > debian patch applied to the kernel i had founded this little howto for > > people that want to have bootsplash on his own debian: > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/d3c3it/html/articles/debian-splash-nonprint. > >htm > > > > Cheers, > > Ste How i said in my last e-mail. this way is hard for newbies that wants to get fbsplash work. I'm working with spock (the fbsplash project manager) to get it works in a easy way (just install 2 packages). I've already done a experimental kernel image compatible with fbsplash. Note that to work the kernel image must to doesn't use initrd images, that are used in the official debian kernel. > I have some experence with bootsplash (I was the original packager for > debian). It seems you are doing some things the hard way. Like your kernel > compile. Try this: > > apt-get install kernel-package > man make-kpkg If you use the standard debian kernel, this command will built an all modulite kernel: maybe it will do a kernel panic because it can't mount the root file system (because the sata and ata and scsi drivers are compiled as module) > It can make a deb of a kernel for you, also you can make a package to hold > the kernel patches. See kernel-patch-bootspash on bootsplash.de for an > example. Also im not sure how the progress bar works in fbsplash, but you > may want to check the sysv-rc-bootsplash package to see how we did it in > the bootsplash packages. This is a thing that i'm working on, i've already packaged a new version of splashutils containins some patches for debian, now i'm including in this package some needed files to get bars works. > -- > Matthew A. Nicholson > Matt-land.com Live long and prosper -- website
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