Package Details: fbsplash 1.5.4.4-18

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/fbsplash.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: fbsplash
Description: A userspace implementation of a splash screen for Linux (formerly known as gensplash)
Upstream URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbsplash.berlios/
Licenses: GPL
Conflicts: fbsplash-scripts, initscripts-fork, mkinitcpio-fbsplash
Submitter: nemstar
Maintainer: None
Last Packager: Doridian
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.073899
First Submitted: 2020-08-04 06:39 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-08-03 21:50 (UTC)

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nemstar commented on 2020-08-12 00:37 (UTC) (edited on 2022-03-05 16:24 (UTC) by nemstar)

README: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fbsplash

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Doridian commented on 2025-08-07 20:55 (UTC)

@AcidBase For the fbcondecor patch: The patch has been developed on top of a clean 6.16 kernel, so it should apply to any kernel. Then all you need to do is turn on the new config option and it should work just fine. I have only tested the patch on devices available to me, which means QEMU/KVM VGA/bochs as well as amdgpu. There is no reason to believe it won't work universally, but, yeah

For fbsplash itself: There have been no changes, other than making it build by adding missing headers etc

Same goes for miscsplashutils.

AcidBase commented on 2025-08-07 18:34 (UTC)

Just remembered about this from long time ago, and went to check and found out gentoo removed it, but found out here that it was just updated last week!

Anything specific I need it to do to port it back to Gentoo(The irony Lol) for myself?

Thank you!

Doridian commented on 2025-08-03 21:45 (UTC) (edited on 2025-08-11 17:58 (UTC) by Doridian)

After I managed to port fbcondecor to 6.16 ( https://github.com/Doridian/linux-cachyos-dori/blob/main/shared/fbcondecor.patch ), I have adopted this and miscsplashutils and added the fixes from the comments (as well as some other minor changes to make the package build easily)

MarsSeed commented on 2024-12-29 15:03 (UTC)

Yes, the obsolete, broken depends=lcms is not used by the built code. It should be removed.

And the following lines need to be added to PKGBUILD, to prevent the make tools from unnecessarily force-linking the binaries to lcms:

prepare() {
  cd "$srcdir/splashutils-$pkgver"
  sed -e '/lcms/d' -i configure.ac
  rm -fv configure
  autoreconf -fiv
}

Azrael95 commented on 2024-08-17 10:03 (UTC)

The package lcms seems to be broken right now. It might be an upstream issue, but it doesn't look like it's getting fixed.

One user suggested that fbsplash doesn't actually require lcms. I don't know if that's true. In any case, the dependency should be either removed or replaced by the not-AUR LCMS2, if possible.

nemstar commented on 2022-02-22 02:49 (UTC)

Updated to add sed fix as suggested by alci3woodstock.

alci3woodstock commented on 2021-05-21 19:26 (UTC) (edited on 2021-05-21 19:27 (UTC) by alci3woodstock)

The package wasn't compiling, so I added the follwing line: "sed -i '696,696 s/fprintf/fputs/g' libfbsplash.c" to PKGBUILD. I don't know if this is an abandoned package but I'm testing this one since initramfs generate by booster doesn't suport plymouth.

waxar commented on 2020-10-08 23:47 (UTC) (edited on 2020-10-08 23:48 (UTC) by waxar)

I can see now why fbsplash is broken. It constantly crashes somewhere down the line:

TIME                            PID   UID   GID SIG COREFILE  EXE
Thu 2020-10-08 16:22:38 PDT     230     0     0  11 none      /usr/bin/fbsplashd.static
Thu 2020-10-08 16:23:38 PDT     229     0     0  11 none      /usr/bin/fbsplashd.static
Thu 2020-10-08 16:25:22 PDT     228     0     0  11 none      /usr/bin/fbsplashd.static
Thu 2020-10-08 16:27:32 PDT     239     0     0  11 none      /usr/bin/fbsplashd.static
Thu 2020-10-08 16:28:29 PDT     240     0     0  11 none      /usr/bin/fbsplashd.static
Thu 2020-10-08 16:29:40 PDT     228     0     0  11 none      /usr/bin/fbsplashd.static
Thu 2020-10-08 16:30:29 PDT     229     0     0  11 none      /usr/bin/fbsplashd.static

waxar commented on 2020-10-08 19:24 (UTC)

As of today, fbsplash seems to be broken. I guess something has gotten quite obsolete in the package itself. I precisely followed the instructions on the Wiki page several times and couldn't get it to work. I then spent several hours googling and trying different things to no avail. Testing themes with 'splash_manager' works alright, but something is broken in the initcpio because it appears the daemon is not run on boot when added to HOOKS both with 'systemd' and 'udev' hooks (no messages in the logs). Also, I can see that there's still references to '/etc/rc.d' for fbcondecor which might be related.

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