Re: splash image during boot - new applet?

2008-02-06 Thread Michele Sanges
Hello Yann, splash application is actually written in C++; recompiling it without the static flag, the size becomes 13.1 Kbyte. For the next week I try to rewrite it in C and, if I can, using the libbb functions. Then I will post my code. Regards. Michele Sanges Il giorno mar, 05/02/2008 alle

Re: splash image during boot - new applet?

2008-02-05 Thread Michele Sanges
Thanks all for your reply. Il giorno lun, 04/02/2008 alle 11.39 -0500, Paul Fox ha scritto: how does a user-level daemon provide a nice user experience? don't you still need kernel splash support in order to fill the screen until you get past init? Paul, the daemon is started 'as soon as

Re: splash image during boot - new applet?

2008-02-05 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
2008/2/5, Michele Sanges [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks all for your reply. [cut] the /etc/linuxsplash/splash.ppm file and/or configure it with the /etc/linuxsplash/linuxsplash.ini file. Recreate the initial ramdisk, replace the old one and unmount the iso. Because busybox support

Re: splash image during boot - new applet?

2008-02-05 Thread Yann E. MORIN
Hello Michele! Hello all! On Tuesday 05 February 2008 12:12:25 Michele Sanges wrote: Only for test, I have create an iso image of a little linuxbox, wich show how the splash works. To maximise chances that the splash applet is accepted in BusyBox, please pay attention to the size. The binary

Re: splash image during boot - new applet?

2008-02-04 Thread Paul Fox
Hello all! On Monday 04 February 2008 17:39:58 Paul Fox wrote: how does a user-level daemon provide a nice user experience? don't you still need kernel splash support in order to fill the screen until you get past init? Assuming that getting up to init is fast enough (less

Re: splash image during boot - new applet?

2008-02-04 Thread walter harms
aehm there is one thing that troubles me, nothing against eyecandy ... but the whole point of bb is putting as much in so few (C-)byts as possible. but maybe its ok if we open a section with eyecandy (i am voting for fortune to include !) re, wh Michele Sanges wrote: Roberto, the

Re: splash image during boot - new applet?

2008-02-04 Thread Paul Fox
Roberto, the application is almost completed. It's a program that starts a daemon and then exits; the daemon reads a configuration file for setting: - the splash image (in .ppm format) - position, dimension and RGB colour of the progress bar. and shows them. how does a user-level

Re: splash image during boot - new applet?

2008-02-04 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
2008/2/4, Michele Sanges [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I'm writing an application in order to show a splash image and a progress bar during the boot phase of my embedded device. This application is based on framebuffer device and is in user space so, unlike 'bootsplash', don't require any