Re: Debian and Bootsplash. A paradox?

[raid517]

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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Hi can someone please help me? I have installed bootsplash in my Kanotix
   

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[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:
   

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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.
 


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