On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:17:45 +0100, Damjan wrote:

snip...
>
> The package from Slackware 10.2 seems to support it and works fine for me..
> What exactly doesn't work for you?

I believe you are incorrect. The grub shipped with 10.2 does not contain
the graphics patch.

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Peter

Thanks for that walkthrough Peter!
...Though I was sorta experienced on compiling stuff, but
I wouldn't have though of doing it the way you suggested ;-)
thx again

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:39:14 +0100, cizu jones wrote:

> Thanks for that walkthrough Peter!
> ..Though I was sorta experienced on compiling stuff, but
> I wouldn't have though of doing it the way you suggested ;-)
> thx again

Sure thing. Now, if only they can figure out a way to have a decent
looking image and image resolution to load. Looking at 640x480 in 14
colors really bites except for most images.

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Peter

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:37:59 +0100, Jérôme PRIOR wrote:

>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:51:45 +0100, cizu jones wrote:
>>
>> > Has anyone got "splashimage" to work with the grub package
>> > that comes with 11.0?
>> > Can't seem to get it to work..
>> >
>> I haven't done this lately, but I wrote about this a couple of years
>> ago:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.o...27db6954c75b51
>> The link also includes a link to a splash screen that I like.
>>
>> Perhaps, the grub from Fedora Core 6 could be used, instead of
>> applying the patch to the basic grub source included with slack 11.
>>
>
> I prefer to not use splash instead of a fedora/deb/other pkg
>
I agree that it is generally not a good idea to mix and match binary code
from other distributions. The grub loader is an exception, IMO. It should
work, just as long as it is compiled correctly. There are other exceptions
for binaries, too. But I agree, the best alternative is to use the source,
and preferrably with a known working "slack build" script. That's because
I'm lazy ;-)

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Douglas Mayne

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:39:14 +0100, cizu jones wrote:

> Thanks for that walkthrough Peter!
> ..Though I was sorta experienced on compiling stuff, but I wouldn't have
> though of doing it the way you suggested ;-) thx again

I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but I got into this thread, and wanted
to provide one last link.

This is a good HOWTO from Gentoo's wiki.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Splash_image_in_GRUB

At the bottom are links to various sites with pre-built grub images.

http://www.schultz-net.dk/grub.html
has several Slackware grub boot splash screens.

http://schragehome.de/splash/
contains some nice space and nature screens.

http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/images/
is from the very outdated Luis Rodriguez' grub splash help site.

HTH

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Peter

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:39:14 +0100, cizu jones wrote:

> Thanks for that walkthrough Peter!
> ..Though I was sorta experienced on compiling stuff, but
> I wouldn't have though of doing it the way you suggested ;-)
> thx again

In reviewing the patch, the requirement for a 14 color xpm file MAY be
incorrect. The patch indicates that all 16 colors are fine:

+/* Read in the splashscreen image and set the palette up appropriately.
+ * Format of splashscreen is an xpm (can be gzipped) with 16 colors and
+ * 640x480. */
+int read_image(char *s)
+{
+ char buf[32], pal[16];

The extra two bytes might help the image have a little nicer look.

So instead of using:

convert image.jpg -depth 8 -colors 14 -resize 640x480 output.xpm
you can use -colors 16.

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Peter

>> The package from Slackware 10.2 seems to support it and works fine for
>> me.. What exactly doesn't work for you?
>
> I believe you are incorrect. The grub shipped with 10.2 does not contain
> the graphics patch.

Then what grub am I using !?!? (since it sure has splash support) ...
maybe I've compiled my own sometime, but I don't remember doing it



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damjan

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cizu jones wrote:
> Has anyone got "splashimage" to work with the grub package
> that comes with 11.0?
> Can't seem to get it to work..

Requires a patch applied to grub which can be found on google easily. To
tired to link you atm.

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cizu jones wrote:
> Has anyone got "splashimage" to work with the grub package
> that comes with 11.0?
> Can't seem to get it to work..

lmfao, just realized the 50 replies! Told you i was tired.
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