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is there a up to date plymouth / splash screen guide?
pomtom44:
HI all.
is there a fixed / working / up to date guide on how to get a boot splash screen working.
I tried to follow the wiki, but ran into issues just trying to compile the plymouth install.
For a disclaimer, I am running on a Raspi 3
Rich:
Hi pomtom44
Maybe some of these will be of use.
This one is piCore specific:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,25171.0.html
These 2 are for Tinycore in general:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,25456.0.html
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,24622.0.html
pomtom44:
Hi Rich
Thanks for the links.
I had a read though all 3 and got part way, but getting stuck now and im not sure where to go from here.
I understand it may be beyond my knowledge and if so, im happy to just leave it as is.
Following your post #6 I did run into a few issues
tce-load -wil fbv
I get file not found error.
I managed to find this library
https://github.com/godspeed1989/fbv
And managed to compile and install it, (after a few errors and trials)
But once installed I loaded the custom boot image as the rest of your post says to do.
However didn't get a splash screen on boot.
I did manually run
/usr/local/bin/fbv -aui /etc/init.d/splash.png
And get this error
setup console
/etc/init.d/splash.png: Unable to access file or file format unknown.
Im not sure if it is due to something missing or the fact I had to compile it myself.
The other option (and im not sure if this would affect it) is my odd display resolution of 1920x480
Everything else works fine once the OS has booted into the GUI, and if i have the console output enabled, that displays fine on the screen
I suspect its something to do with the complied FBV and not working on a arm/pi?
pomtom44:
--- Quote from: pomtom44 on February 27, 2024, 12:08:11 PM ---Hi Rich
Thanks for the links.
I had a read though all 3 and got part way, but getting stuck now and im not sure where to go from here.
I understand it may be beyond my knowledge and if so, im happy to just leave it as is.
Following your post #6 I did run into a few issues
tce-load -wil fbv
I get file not found error.
I managed to find this library
https://github.com/godspeed1989/fbv
And managed to compile and install it, (after a few errors and trials)
But once installed I loaded the custom boot image as the rest of your post says to do.
However didn't get a splash screen on boot.
I did manually run
/usr/local/bin/fbv -aui /etc/init.d/splash.png
And get this error
setup console
/etc/init.d/splash.png: Unable to access file or file format unknown.
Im not sure if it is due to something missing or the fact I had to compile it myself.
The other option (and im not sure if this would affect it) is my odd display resolution of 1920x480
Everything else works fine once the OS has booted into the GUI, and if i have the console output enabled, that displays fine on the screen
I suspect its something to do with the complied FBV and not working on a arm/pi?
--- End quote ---
Follow up to this,
Found this thread which im now following
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21566.0.html
Will update how that goes
pomtom44:
--- Quote from: pomtom44 on February 27, 2024, 12:24:52 PM ---
--- Quote from: pomtom44 on February 27, 2024, 12:08:11 PM ---Hi Rich
Thanks for the links.
I had a read though all 3 and got part way, but getting stuck now and im not sure where to go from here.
I understand it may be beyond my knowledge and if so, im happy to just leave it as is.
Following your post #6 I did run into a few issues
tce-load -wil fbv
I get file not found error.
I managed to find this library
https://github.com/godspeed1989/fbv
And managed to compile and install it, (after a few errors and trials)
But once installed I loaded the custom boot image as the rest of your post says to do.
However didn't get a splash screen on boot.
I did manually run
/usr/local/bin/fbv -aui /etc/init.d/splash.png
And get this error
setup console
/etc/init.d/splash.png: Unable to access file or file format unknown.
Im not sure if it is due to something missing or the fact I had to compile it myself.
The other option (and im not sure if this would affect it) is my odd display resolution of 1920x480
Everything else works fine once the OS has booted into the GUI, and if i have the console output enabled, that displays fine on the screen
I suspect its something to do with the complied FBV and not working on a arm/pi?
--- End quote ---
Follow up to this,
Found this thread which im now following
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21566.0.html
Will update how that goes
--- End quote ---
Ok so update.
Managed to get it working when I run the command manually, and when I put the command in the boot process, I have fixed the missing lib errors.
However I don't get a splashscreen, I get the flasing _ icon, then it loads the desktop
Not sure again if something to do with my odd screen resolution and not liking the VGA resolutions on the boot?
I did try VGA=ask and didn't get a prompt, so maybe im putting it in the wrong place?
Im adding it to the end of the cmdline.txt entry
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