[arch-general] initscripts-splash and fbsplash
Hello all, I've reworked the initscripts-splash patch by hand into the latest version of initscripts. I've also updated the fbsplash package to the latest version of splashutils. So far, I've been using it for about a week now with my laptop, and have encounted no problems at all. Splash even works on hibernate with uswsusp-splash from the AUR. (Haven't tried tuxonice because I don't use it) Here's links to the updated PKGBUILD tarballs. http://www.fallendusk.org/arch/initscripts-splash.tar.gz http://www.fallendusk.org/arch/fbsplash.tar.gz I'm using my own custom kernel with the fbcondecor patch (makes splash load as soon as kernel does) but from what I understand fbsplash should work without, just not until after init loads. I would be more than glad to maintain either of these packages if the current maintainers would like to hand them off. :) --Greg
Hi, thank you for work, ill test these packages soon; On Wednesday 01 October 2008 16:21:15 Gregory T Helton wrote:
I'm using my own custom kernel with the fbcondecor patch (makes splash load as soon as kernel does) but from what I understand fbsplash should work without, just not until after init loads.
Shouldn't you be able to make your splash screen loads in the initcpio/initrd ; avoiding the need to patch kernel or to wait until init started? Ragards, Charly
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:08:23 +0200 Charly Ghislain <charlyghislain@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
thank you for work, ill test these packages soon;
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 16:21:15 Gregory T Helton wrote:
I'm using my own custom kernel with the fbcondecor patch (makes splash load as soon as kernel does) but from what I understand fbsplash should work without, just not until after init loads.
Shouldn't you be able to make your splash screen loads in the initcpio/initrd ; avoiding the need to patch kernel or to wait until init started?
Ragards,
Charly
fbsplash actually does load from the initcpio, but it depends on the fbcondecor kernel patch to use splash early in the boot process. This is just how it was designed. I'm currently researching and trying to come up with a way to remove the dependency on a custom initscripts package to get splash to work.
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