Improving the look of my Bootsplash???

Southpaw76 · 12-17-2006, 11:20 PM

Hello all,
Believe it or not I've actually got the latest Bootsplash package from Linuxpackages.net to work on my frambuffer console. However, the only problem I've run into is that the colors look all messed up. Now I found on the Bootsplash website FAQ page that in the situation with an ATI Rage 128 framebuffer, a patch is required. The problem I ran into when I tried to apply the patch...

Code:

root@slackware:/usr/src/linux# patch -p1 < /home/southpaw76/aty128-bootsplash.diff
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- linux/drivers/video/aty128fb.c.orig        2002-11-14 12:33:31.000000000 +0100
|+++ linux/drivers/video/aty128fb.c     2002-11-14 12:45:16.000000000 +0100
--------------------------
File to patch: 
Skip this patch? [y] n
File to patch:  linux/drivers/video/aty128fb.c
linux/drivers/video/aty128fb.c: No such file or directory
Skip this patch? [y] n
File to patch: linux/drivers/video/aty128fb.c.orig
linux/drivers/video/aty128fb.c.orig: No such file or directory

...does anyone know if there is an updated patch for this??? This is the one I downloaded...

Code:

 --- linux/drivers/video/aty128fb.c.orig	2002-11-14 12:33:31.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/video/aty128fb.c	2002-11-14 12:45:16.000000000 +0100
@@ -2406,6 +2406,44 @@
             aty128_st_pal(i, i, i, i, info);
     }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FBCON_SPLASHSCREEN
+
+    /* splash-screen needs true-color */
+
+    switch (info->current_par.crtc.depth) {
+    case 8:
+	aty128_st_pal(palreg, red, green, blue, info);
+	break;
+#ifdef FBCON_HAS_CFB16
+    case 15:
+	info->fbcon_cmap.cfb16[regno] =
+		((red   & 0xf8) <<  7) |
+		((green & 0xf8) <<  2) |
+		((blue  & 0xf8) >>  3);
+	break;
+    case 16:
+	info->fbcon_cmap.cfb16[regno] =
+		((red   & 0xf8) <<  8) |
+		((green & 0xfc) <<  3) |
+		((blue  & 0xf8) >>  3);
+	break;
+#endif
+#ifdef FBCON_HAS_CFB24
+    case 24:
+	info->fbcon_cmap.cfb24[regno] =
+		(red << 16) | (green << 8) | blue;
+	break;
+#endif
+#ifdef FBCON_HAS_CFB32
+    case 32:
+	info->fbcon_cmap.cfb32[regno] =
+		(red << 16) | (green << 8) | blue;
+	break;
+#endif
+    }
+
+#else
+
     /* initialize palette */
 
     palreg = regno;
@@ -2448,6 +2486,7 @@
         }
 #endif
 	}
+#endif /* CONFIG_FBCON_SPLASHSCREEN */
     return 0;
 }

...as usual any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated, thanx...

gnashley · 12-18-2006, 01:14 AM

The patch is for the sources, not the installable binary package. You'll need to apply that to the sources and recompile.

doc.nice · 12-18-2006, 04:44 AM

@gnashlay: he tries to apply the patch to the kernel sources as the directory states...
(if this really are only the headers, install the complete kernel source first)

then to solve your problem:
either apply the patch in directory /usr/src or use -p2 instead of -p1

HTH,
Flo

Southpaw76 · 12-18-2006, 05:00 PM

Yeah I tried that with both p1 and p2 but it didn't work. Also yes, I did install the full vanilla sources of the Linux-2.6.17.13 kernel when I originally installed Slackware

....

Alien Bob · 12-18-2006, 05:11 PM

In my 2.6.17.3 kernel sources, that file aty128fb.c is one directory deeper down than the patch file expects:

Code:

/usr/src/linux-2.6.17.13/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c

Eric

Southpaw76 · 12-18-2006, 06:59 PM

Okay, so here's what happened upon digging a little deeper...

Code:

root@slackware:/usr/src/linux/drivers/video/aty# patch -p1 < /home/southpaw76/aty128-bootsplash.diff
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- linux/drivers/video/aty128fb.c.orig        2002-11-14 12:33:31.000000000 +0100
|+++ linux/drivers/video/aty128fb.c     2002-11-14 12:45:16.000000000 +0100
--------------------------
File to patch: /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c   
patching file /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 2406.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 2486.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file /usr/src/linux/drivers/video/aty/aty128fb.c.rej

....so now I'm trying to figure out what is going wrong...

gnashley · 12-19-2006, 12:30 AM

Maybe the patch was meant for 2.4 sources?

Alien Bob · 12-19-2006, 01:58 AM

Quote:

root@slackware:/usr/src/linux/drivers/video/aty# patch -p1 < /home/southpaw76/aty128-bootsplash.diff

You should have run

Code:

root@slackware:/usr/src/linux/drivers/video/aty# patch -p3 < /home/southpaw76/aty128-bootsplash.diff

Eric

Southpaw76 · 12-19-2006, 05:06 PM

Okay Bob, now I did like you said...

Code:

root@slackware:/usr/src/linux/drivers/video/aty# 
patch -p3 < /home/southpaw76/aty128-bootsplash.diff

...and after I issued a -p3 instead of a -p1 or a -p2, like you suggested but this is what happened...

Code:

patching file aty128fb.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 2406.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 2486.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file aty128fb.c.rej

...I'm still not understanding the errors

.

Southpaw76 · 12-20-2006, 05:17 PM

Does anybody know if I can manually patch the file by cutting and pasting from one diff to another???

gnashley · 12-21-2006, 01:51 AM

Sure you can paste from the diff into the source file -just be sure to remove the *+' signs at the beginning of the lines. Make sure to create backup copies of each file modified before beginning.

doc.nice · 12-21-2006, 04:12 AM

simply find the correct positions in your original file and patch manually, if you can ensure you won't break any new code (that will surely be there, as else the patch could apply...)

Southpaw76 · 12-24-2006, 03:23 PM

Well I figured out hoe to get the bootsplash to work with progressbar and all

. First off, being that I had my /home directory on a seperate partition, I reinstalled Slackware on my / (root) partition. Why, you ask? Because after having messed up my kernel with the whole "aty128fb" patch and such. After that I tried using Spock's Splashutils package which is used with Gentoo, but no luck there

. So, I reinstalled Slackware, did my usual post installation configuration procedure, finally I installed the Bootsplash package from linuxpackages.net, which btw works beautifully

.

After, installing the package using "installpkg", I read the well written (IMO) documentation provided. The difference being that when I compiled my kernel, instead of enabling ATI Rage128 directly, I compiled it as a module and Vesa directly. After that I changed the line in my /etc/lilo.conf from this...

Code:

append = "video=aty128fb:ywrap,mtrr splash=silent"

to this...

Code:

append = "video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr splash=silent"

...after that, I configured the rc.S, rc.M, rc.6, and rc.local files as it is recommended for the progressbar to work. I also downloaded a few different splash screens from the bootsplash website. And after having done this, I am happy to report that the bootsplash screen works

. Thanx again for all of your help..........