Re: Debian and Bootsplash. A paradox?

[raid517 <raid517@fairadsl.co.uk>]

I agree, it is silly that the kernel is trying to do this. It should be 
a user space function and not a kernel space one. You shouldn't have to 
fight to repair bootsplash every time you change/compile your kernel. 
However I just recently tried splashy from the Alpha repositories - and 
I found it wasn't quite ready for prime time on my system. It caused 
init to go crazy on reboot with a zillion error messages, finally 
stopping with an error saying that something was attempting to 'respawn 
too fast' - and that it was 'quitting for 5 minutes.' The only way to 
fix this was to chroot into my Debian unstable install and remove 
Splashy. Also it seemed to start very late in the booting process - 
which I think is simply due to the fact that it doesn't have intrid support.

So until these issues are sorted out, I would rather continue to use 
bootsplash - if that is I can get it working. Which requires that I 
first somehow overcome this paradox.

Best regards,

GJ

Luis M wrote:

> On 5/11/05, raid517 <raid517@fairadsl.co.uk> wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi can someone please help me? I have installed bootsplash in my Kanotix
> >    
> [snip]
>  
>
> > [code] title        Kanotix/Linux, kernel
> > root        (hd0,5)
> > kernel        /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro ramdisk_size=100000 lang=us
> > apm=power-off selinux=0 nomce vga=791 splash=silent video=vesafb:nomtrr
> > boot[/code]
> >
> > The relevant sections of dmesge regarding bootsplash show no problems:
> >    
>
> [snip]
>
> Well, you said any help appreciated, so, here is mine:
> http://alioth.debian.org/projects/splashy
> http://wiki.nanofreesoft.org/index.php/Splashy
>
> We struggle a lot to get kernel patches to do something that should
> NOT be done by the kernel in the first place. So, we started
> "splashy", which is a user-space bootsplash program which works for
> all UNIX (POSIX) compatible operating systems. All you need to make it
> work:
> 1. a framebuffer
> 2. glib-2.x
> 3. libdirectfb-0.9.x
>
> For easier access:
>
> Add debian experimental or the splashy repository to your
> /etc/apt/sources.list file as explained in the wiki. then do:
>
> apt-get --purge remove splashy usplash bootsplash debsplash
> apt-get install splashy
>
> Make sure that you keep your grub line with vga=791, the splash=
> argument is not needed.
>
> Reboot and enjoy...
>
> Note: we have justs uploaded splashy to experimental. We hope to have
> a fully stable splashy code in a few more days. But for now, this is a
> good piece of code to get your hands on and start making your debian
> boxes prettier.
>
>
>