HOWTO: Bootup splash screen with splashy

[Sionide]

Wow, nice HOWTO. Hope it works for me, make sure it gets added to the Index of HOWTOs as well! I'm just waiting for a big file to upload before I reboot.

Edit: Whoo! It works great, this is a quality little trick. Should definately be made one of *the* ones to have...

[sonny]

This is a nice how-to... I could manage to make it work, although now I get an error every time I boot, its something about the kernel fonts, but I really don't know what does it means, or where to look for an answer, when it boots it loads the image, then the background image change to the error one, and then to text mode, I know that error wasn't there before I did the boot splashy, cus I always looked what it was doing, can anyone help me??

[elsewhere]

I had splashy running on a previous install of Kubuntu. It installed and worked without any issues, EXCEPT that it broke the suspend-to-RAM functionality on my laptop. Machine couldn't recover from suspend, would hang at a blank screen. I figure it had something to do with the text or graphics mode it was setting my card (nVidia) at, and I know the nVidia cards are fragile at best when handling suspend as it is.

Anyone else run into this ? Is there maybe a way to restore my tty settings to normal after splashy runs ?

Also, Kubuntu users take a look at this link on kde-look for a custom splashy theme.

Cheers,
KV

[lizardking]

My first theme for Ubuntu Splashy..

You can download that here: www.iacopomasi.net/UbuntuSmooth-alphaversion.tar.gz
It based on UbuntuSmooth modified by me more clear....
This is UbuntuSmooth Gdm theme:

[vaskark]

This is a nice how-to... I could manage to make it work, although now I get an error every time I boot, its something about the kernel fonts, but I really don't know what does it means, or where to look for an answer, when it boots it loads the image, then the background image change to the error one, and then to text mode, I know that error wasn't there before I did the boot splashy, cus I always looked what it was doing, can anyone help me??

Is the error "t_kernel_font: Invalid arguement"? The same thing happens to me. Don't have a solution, though. Does anyone?

[sonny]

Is the error "t_kernel_font: Invalid arguement"? The same thing happens to me. Don't have a solution, though. Does anyone?

Yes that's my error... and I suppouse WE NEED HELP...

[infinito]

Is the error "t_kernel_font: Invalid arguement"? The same thing happens to me. Don't have a solution, though. Does anyone?

Yes that's my error... and I suppouse WE NEED HELP...

From the Splashy website (FAQ section):

At about 70-80% of booting process Splashy goes to verbose mode and shows:

t_kernel_font: Invalid Argument

It's a bug related with the /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh file that does not set the font for framebuffer properly, this bug is unsolved. The work around is to edit the config.xml and set:

1. "autoverboseonerror" to "no"

[sonny]

well that is easy... why didn't I tought about it???

[NeoChaosX]

Works for me, except when I installed the Ubuntu theme on the first page, the shutdown screen didn't work. Boot-up screen shows up just fine, though.

EDIT: Never mind, a little tweaking got it working just fine.

[sonny]

Ok.. I've try it and it worked...