[Splashy-users] splashy

[Luis Mondesi]

Hello,

Sorry for the late reply...

On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jean-Pierre Demailly
<Jean-Pierre.Demailly at ujf-grenoble.fr> wrote:
> Hi:
>
>  I'd like to report some issues I have here with splashy
>  (CVS from this morning February 2, 2008). I run it with Debian Sid
>  (which I installed from Live CD Sidux), on a HP laptop
>  Pavilion Entertainment DV 9000 (processor Intel Core Duo2) and
>  a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS chipset.
>

By "CVS" do you mean Git?
http://git.debian.org ....

>  `uname -a` yields :
>  Linux lennon 2.6.23.12-roo-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 17 20:11:30 CET 2008
>  x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>  I did not manage to get the current Debian package running (that is,
>  splashy-0.3.8). It immediately hang up, even after all the suggested
>  tweaks with keymap.sh and console-screen.sh in /etc/init.d
>
>  The CVS version did substantially better - it hang just at the end of the
>  boot process, exactly when 'kdm' started. Adding
>

umm... kdm is still an issue... I'll have to install kdm on a VM to
test this. I use gdm and xdm and they both work fine.

>  if `pidof splashy > /dev/null`
>  then
>      /sbin/splashy_update exit
>  fi
>
>  on top of /etc/init.d/km did solve the problem - so now splashy allows
>  a complete boot of my laptop - and somehow works.
>

Yep. that should help. but /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh should work as
well... we will change this to the new splash API for initrc scripts.

>  Well, almost ... Actually a strange thing occurs. When the X session is
>  ready, the screen becomes partially garbled - about a dozen of tiny
>  blacks spots appear on the top left corner ; then, the screen becomes
>  more and more garbled with such spots when one begins to move windows
>  around.
>

This is because the keyboard driver for libdirectfb corrupts the X
driver. a known issue...

>  A simple remedy exists : a single
>   chvt 1; chvt 7
>  is enough to cure the problem, so I added
>   ( sleep 4 ; chvt 1 ; chvt 7 ) &
>  in my /etc/rc.local  to fix it automatically.
>

sounds good... We can probably do that with /sbin/splashy_chvt

>  Anymway, it took me a total of 3 or 4 hours to experiment all this - and the
>  result is not very elegant in the end.
>
>  Are there better ways ?
>

Yes, but we need to implement it in C in splashy since directfb does
not give a simple call to put things back the way they were.

>  A better way would be first to implement a fix for the unicode thing along
>  with splashy, so that one could avoid the ugly work-around with
>  keymap.sh and console-screen.sh. Is there a patch ?
>
>  If you have any idea for the X problem - apparently a conflict between
>  framebuffer and X, I would also be quite happy to know.
>
>  Keep up the good work,

Thanks

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