| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/fbsplash.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| 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: | 0.000264 |
| First Submitted: | 2020-08-04 06:39 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-08-03 21:50 (UTC) |
depends needs to be changed (libjpeg):Can you please change
libjpeg to libjpeg-turbo (any maybe existing make dependency libjpeg needs also to be changed to libjpeg-turbo),libjpeg to libjpeg.so AND add make dependency libjpeg-turbo?Reason: Arch Linux does not have libjpeg anymore, and libjpeg-turbo stopped to declare libjpeg in it's provides array.
Regards and thanks for maintaining!
@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.
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!
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)
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
}
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.
Updated to add sed fix as suggested 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.
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
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.
Pinned Comments
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