fbsplash

[thephilv]

Hello all,

first off I want to give my thanks for this guide. I have followed it step by step. I am using kernel-2.6.16 with the emission4 patch and bd-claim.patch. I am running Ubuntu 6.06.

The problem I am having is that no matter what I do after uncompressing the kernel it always looks for 640x480.cfg instead of 1024x768.cfg

i have done:

sudo update-initramfs
and
sudo splash_geninitramfs -a /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-emission4 --all
(I get a warning that says that Ubuntu config file for 800x600 does not exist.)

my menu.lst:

title		Ubuntu 2.6.16-emission4
root		(hd0,5)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-emission4 root=/dev/hda6 ro video=vesafb:1024x768-32,ywrap splash=silent,theme:Ubuntu quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-emission4
boot

EDIT:
If i try to preview the theme it outputs that there is no 640x480.cfg for the Ubuntu theme
It also screws up my screen. All the colors go wacky (i am thinking it changes the color depth but i could be way off)

I have been working on this since yesterday and it is frustrating me. If anyone can help I would be most greatful.

Thanks everyone,

Phil V

[Brando569]

everything went fine except im confused as to where the new initrd image comes from?

you have this listed in the howto but never explain where it is or how to make it:

add this line after the kernel line:
Code:

initrd /boot/fbsplash.img

[knn]

everything went fine except im confused as to where the new initrd image comes from?

you have this listed in the howto but never explain where it is or how to make it:

add this line after the kernel line:
Code:

initrd /boot/fbsplash.img

Whooops, that's from the old version of the howto, will fix it immediately.
The real initrd is installed by the package and is already there in grub. don't change it
Edit: fixed. Thanks for spotting this. I hope you didn't add the initrd /boot/fbsplash.img line. If you did, remove it.

@Phil V

The theme doesn't support 640x480. It's 1024x768 only. It seems your system can't do 1024x768-32 for some reason. Try 1024x768-16 instead

Edit: or uninstalling usplash ran a script that regenerates menu.lst with the default options. This means the required parameters are missing. Check your menu.lst, and redo step2 if that's the case
Edit2: I checked, uninstalling usplash doesn't do that, but you should check menu.lst anyway. I've added instructions about this to the howto, including how to set these options as default so you don't have to fix menu.lst when some package breaks it.

[conexion200]

I have some problems with dapper. All the time fbsplash show message: initializing the kernel and progressbar doesn't move. Splash sometimes flickers. Please help.

[scenestar]

I have some problems with dapper. All the time fbsplash show message: initializing the kernel and progressbar doesn't move. Splash sometimes flickers. Please help.

Is it really that hard to read through a thread before posting in it.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...7&postcount=29

quit wasting other peoples times with frivolous help requests. You need to do your Homework

[knn]

I have some problems with dapper. All the time fbsplash show message: initializing the kernel and progressbar doesn't move. Splash sometimes flickers. Please help.

Flickering: check step 6 of part 2 (I just added it).
Progressbar problem: that's a bug in my ubuntu theme. Download it again, and don't forget to regenerate the initrd image (part 2/step 5).

[thephilv]

knn,
thanks I got it working. I did not check allowance for splash screens for some reason on my kernel config. It is working now except the progress bar doesn't move...gonna re-download the theme and try again. thanks again for the tutorial and your help knn.
-Phil V

[scenestar]

I like to cut and paste:

su to root

apt-get remove usplash

apt-get install linux-source

-=optional=-
apt-get install ndiswrapper-source
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source
-=-

apt-get install build-essential kernel-package gcc libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libqt3-mt-dev bin86

cd /usr/src

tar --bzip2 -xvf linux-source-2.6.16.tar.bz2

-=If you wan't to compile the sources mentioned before=-

tar --bzip2 -xvf ndiswrapper-source.tar.bz2
tar -xvf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz

ln -sf /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.16 /usr/src/linux

wget http://iphitus.loudas.com/beyond/2.6...-beyond4.1.bz2

cd /usr/src/linux

bzcat /usr/src/patch-2.6.16-beyond4.1.bz2 | patch -p1

make oldconfig

make xconfig

-=- AS mentioned before-=-

When I say check something, I mean put a checkmark into the square before it. A small circle means building it as a module, which is not enough.


Under Input device support, check Event interface (I believe this is needed to be able to use F2 to switch to verbose mode)
Graphics support:
Check support for frame buffer devices
Uncheck Tile blitting support! This is only needed for some Matrox cards, but is incompatible with fbsplash
Vesa VGA support: check it and select vesafb-tng if you patched the kernel with the vesafb-tng patch or emission, otherwise use vesafb (or a card-specific driver, e.g. nvidia, ati etc.).
In Graphics support/Console display driver support, check VGA text console and Video mode selection support. Check Framebuffer Console support (but not Rotation).
Go back to Graphics support and check support for framebuffer splash (Scroll down, it should be the last one).

-=-

-=- take advantage of the patch enhancements -=-


In "General Setup" activate:

-Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)
--Support for prefetching swapped memory

In "Processor type and features":

-Processor family Choose the model of your processor.

Activate:

-Preemption Model
--Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)

-High Memory Support
--off -if you have less than 1 GB of RAM
--1GB Low Memory Support -if you have 1GB of RAM
--4GB -if you have more than 1GB of RAM

-Timer frequency
--1000 Hz

-=-

save the .config and

cd /usr/src/linux
make clean

make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image

when gcc is done crunching

cd /user/src
dpkg -i *.deb

now reboot and make sure you boot up the new kernel.

-=- after reboot -=-

Open a new terminal and become root:

su

mkdir fbsplash

cd fbsplash

wget http://jdurand.web.cern.ch/jdurand/s...1.3-1_i386.deb

wget http://jdurand.web.cern.ch/jdurand/s....10-23_all.deb

wget http://jdurand.web.cern.ch/jdurand/s...10-23_i386.deb

dpkg -i *.deb

mkdir /etc/bootsplash/
mkdir /etc/bootsplash/themes

wget http://www.bootsplash.de/files/theme...Ubuntu.tar.bz2

tar --bzip2 -xvf Theme-Ubuntu.tar.bz2 /etc/bootsplash/themes

bootsplash2fbsplash Ubuntu

-=-it should be installed.-=-

-=-last step before it actually works-=-

cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.old

gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

find the line "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-beyond4.1 root=/dev/hda1 ro"
and add "splash=silent,fadein,theme:Ubuntu quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1" at the end of it


now reboot and enjoy.

[scenestar]

and to add a graphical cherry on top

Here's a matching grubsplash for the verbose background in my howto

[knn]

I like to cut and paste:

su to root


-=- AS mentioned before-=-

When I say check something, I mean put a checkmark into the square before it. A small circle means building it as a module, which is not enough.


Under Input device support, check Event interface (I believe this is needed to be able to use F2 to switch to verbose mode)
Graphics support:
Check support for frame buffer devices
Uncheck Tile blitting support! This is only needed for some Matrox cards, but is incompatible with fbsplash
Vesa VGA support: check it and select vesafb-tng if you patched the kernel with the vesafb-tng patch or emission, otherwise use vesafb (or a card-specific driver, e.g. nvidia, ati etc.).
In Graphics support/Console display driver support, check VGA text console and Video mode selection support. Check Framebuffer Console support (but not Rotation).
Go back to Graphics support and check support for framebuffer splash (Scroll down, it should be the last one).

-=-

-=- take advantage of the patch enhancements -=-


In "General Setup" activate:

-Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)
--Support for prefetching swapped memory

In "Processor type and features":

-Processor family Choose the model of your processor.

Activate:

-Preemption Model
--Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)

-High Memory Support
--off -if you have less than 1 GB of RAM
--1GB Low Memory Support -if you have 1GB of RAM
--4GB -if you have more than 1GB of RAM

-Timer frequency
--1000 Hz

-=-

save the .config and



when gcc is done crunching


now reboot and make sure you boot up the new kernel.

-=- after reboot -=-

Open a new terminal and become root:


-=-it should be installed.-=-

-=-last step before it actually works-=-

cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.old

gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

find the line "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-beyond4.1 root=/dev/hda1 ro"
and add "splash=silent,fadein,theme:Ubuntu quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1" at the end of it


now reboot and enjoy.

All fbsplash themes (like my Ubuntu theme) have to be installed to /etc/splash. Bootsplash themes are installed to /etc/bootsplash, and then they have to be converted. I don't use fadein because it causes flicker with progressbars.