Re: [gentoo-kernel] I'm not able to get the vertical bar with gensplash after issuing alt+f1 key during the earlier boot stage

[Jimmy Jazz]

Michal Januszewski a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:53:45PM +0200, Jimmy Jazz wrote:
>
>
>> I will try splash_util and look if it doesn't overvalue my needs.
>> Indeed, bzImage doesn't become too huge.
>>
>
> splash_util, being dynamically linked, won't work from an initramfs unless
> you're willing to include glibc, libpng, freetype2 etc with it. And that
> _will_ make the image huge :)
>
> Best regards.
>
hello,

You are right, but that doesn't matter  if you are using initramfs into
the kernel file instead initrd (My kernel is just 5Mo huge). With the
switch_root command you will have the full memory back again :). In
fact, i didn't implement splash_util into the cpio file because of some
freezes and lack of time :)

Anyway, i tried to compile splashutils-1.4.2 without success. It seems
we are now unable to use it without the kernel patch which also i cannot
install :(

[code]
You can run `make` now.
  CC      objs/solibsplash.o
  LD      objs/libsplash.so
  CONF    libjpeg
  MAKE    libjpeg
  CONF    freetype2
  MAKE    freetype2
  CONF    zlib
  MAKE    zlib
  CONF    libpng
  MAKE    libpng
  CC      objs/kernel/kernel.o
kernel.c: In function ‘handle_init’:
kernel.c:96: erreur: ‘FB_SPLASH_IO_ORIG_USER’ undeclared (first use in
this function)
kernel.c:96: erreur: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel.c:96: erreur: for each function it appears in.)
kernel.c: In function ‘main’:
kernel.c:262: erreur: ‘FB_SPLASH_IO_ORIG_KERNEL’ undeclared (first use
in this function)
make: *** [objs/kernel/kernel.o] Erreur 1
[/code]


Have you dropped the 100% gensplash userspace solution ? why ? :cry:

Jj