Hoary 5.04 Bootsplash

[Charlie Lewis]

On Monday 18 April 2005 11:52 pm, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Charlie,
> could I dream that you would take the time to share this knowledge and write 
> a long and detailed "HowTo" procedure in the Wiki ?

> I did try "Splashy", the user mode splash, but I don't find it as good
> as a normal/old splash system.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vince

I'll try to do that at some point soon Vince. Couple of more things I want to 
do, the first is to make sure I didn't jump the gun since I've only done this 
with Ubuntu 5.04 on one machine and configuration. This one which I did it on 
is an old work mule 1.2 Gig AMD with bunches of fast becoming fossil 
peripherals like an old Lexmark Z32 printer and using a WUSB11 ver. 2.6 
Network Adapter as it's primary connect to my router, so my main purpose on 
the kernel rebuild was to strip a lot of unnecessary out of it for my own 
purposes and to just get the kernel source in place, all my extra module 
sources such as my Logitech USB quickcam, the right drivers for the wlan and 
what have you and see how well it built and packaged a custom kernel and 
module debs with kpkg and decided to go on and frill it a bit with the 
bootsplash. I knew one of the first Ubuntu systems I had tried, but it's been 
a while so I don't remember if it was a live or a hd install, but I did know 
there was a neat ubuntu-bootsplash-theme already out there that just needed 
the right adjustments to run. I'd read a number of explanations as to why it 
hadn't or didn't get included in Hoary or why it had been dropped somewhere 
along the line. I'd been running various themes on Debian Sarge and Sid 
systems for quite some time with little or no difficulty until I hit the snag 
with the debanized 2.6.10 with which the static compilation of the vesafb 
balked and caused the blank console. 

I've got the original vesafb.c here now, the debanized version that had caused 
the problem, the corrected version and the version that is shipped with the 
debanized, ubuntuized, much changelogged 2.6.10 source. ;-)

I'm going to run a couple more kernel builds today, particularly on another 
machine, both static and modular versions of the vesafb and see what happens 
and then go from there.

I'm not sure I understand all I think I know about Splashy, and it looks like 
it may be an OK idea, but needs some development. Presently for me it's just 
not an answer for eye candy with my various configurations and toys. 

I'm not developer, coder, evaluator, guru, admin. nor professional in the 
field. Just an almost 64 year old grandpa who's been using Linux since RedHat 
Mother's day release. Well, I guess I am kind of a senile, senior, citizen 
sysadmin for an extended family of geeks who most all grew up Linux lovers. 

I'll prolly show up on the wiki and most likely be trying to get more 
comfortable and acquainted with some more of the users on the list and in the 
community. I'd made a short intro about a month ago commenting on the wlan 
deal with the hoary preview, Now I need to quit jawing, get off my butt and 
get configuring and compiling. 

Here's a dual headed shot of ubuntu at 2560x1024, KDE 3.4. It's running an el 
cheapo Gainward vid card with an Nvidia FX 5200 and the drivers built on the 
machine from the ubuntu nvidia-kernel-source and other stuff. Pretty big shot 
and not for a weaner screen or modem connection. ;-)

http://home.hot.rr.com/olgnuby/ubuntu1.jpg

Prolly check in on the wiki later this week.

CC