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Hi folks. I'm new to the board and new to Raspberry Pi. I am building a small mame machine using PiMame. I wanted to setup a boot screen / splash screen so I also used that fbi method and I am having the same blank screen issue after the splash screen is displayed. I was hoping someone had found a fix for this issue.

FBI splash method is working first-try for me, though I have discovered a strange problem - after a week, finally traced it to fbi.

When using the fbi splash screen, it nicely shows the splash when etc/init.d/ script are started, not before, which is ok for my needs. fbi process seems to exit automatically as the gui desktop starts - I did not configure this, but it works for me.

The issue I was experiencing was an artifact at the top left of the desktop display - a block about the size of a text character was blacked out, and unusable by the desktop. It seemed to me that one of the TTY's that were not active had blinking cursors at the same position.

When fbi it not running splash, there is no artifact at the top left, when it displays a splash image, there is. Thus fbi is causing the issue, directly or indirectly.

So far (still working on a solution) is to reset the desktop. I am using "chvt 1 ; chvt 7" which corrects the problem until the next reboot.

Anyone with a similar issue?

I have the same problem as norex stated ... the image will come up, stay for some seconds and then disappear.

Has anybody solved this? Are we missing a point here?

Greets
Cengiz

I am work on something similar to the splash screen, but its a menu sys, that users FB.
Your welcome to try it
http://www.dex-os.com/MiniDos/fb.zip
You will need to set it to boot at startup and you will need to use sudo ./fb
If it work without disappearing , i will make a splash screen ver where you can set your own image and close.

skidoobond wrote:You need a script that will pkill fbi when you want the splash screen to be over. Fbi, AFAIK, doesn't exit by itself.

I have a problem here. Even after pkilling fbi, it shows on the TV (through HDMI, because i run it with the -T 1 option). I have no idea how to tell my computer to return to a normal terminal interface on the computer. It keeps displaying the picture! I've tried to load a blac image with fbi. That blanks the screen, but it doesn't really help me because I still can't see the terminal.

Any suggestions?

Hey all,

Using the posted script, is fbi running in a separate thread? Is this splash screen intended to be blocking, as none of the init.d scripts run for me until I exit fbi.

has anyone managed to get rid of the blinking cursor in the upper left after the splash screen? I have everything working great using fbi but when the splash screen exits I have UZBL opening to show a slideshow, in the upper left you can see a cursor constantly over everything. Whenever I remove the splash from running this issues disappears :/

Looks like a black rectangle in upper left corner, anyway to completely disable the cursor icon throughout a setting?

A little bit more than u asked for
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... on#p449915

This thread is over a year old and no one appear to be responding to the issue about the black cursor like at top left after using fbi frame buffer to display a splash screen during boot.

I am getting the same issue.

I am following this to display a splash screen:
http://kb.gosi.at/content/43/141/en/how ... pbian.html

Then I want to run in kiosk mode so I am following this:
http://blogs.wcode.org/2013/09/howto-bo ... ser-kiosk/

If I hit the ESC during the splash screen the black cursor does not show but it will be unattended. Anyone have a solution?

Would anything from this http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... m-blinking put into the splashscreen script help?

I did it in a C program like this http://raspberrycompote.blogspot.ie/201 ... rt_21.html (last code box).

I found a simple way to get rid of the black block that is left in the top left corner of the screen after fbi finishes and the desktop loads up.

Instead of using -T 1 in the fbi command just use -T 2

Virtual Terminal 2 clears itself automatically but vt 1 is set to no clear

I've written my own fb image loader rather than fbi because of the number of additional package dependencies and I've been trying to get this resolved for most of the afternoon. Finally fixed with the help of http://antoine.villeret.free.fr/?p=811
which gives the cmdline option