Anybody know how to make a splash screen

[Corry]

Anybody got any ideas on how to make a splash screen instead of the boot messages?
Thanks

[Corry]

Nobody?

[DexOS]

Sure this will put a nice splash screen on bootup

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load   MyBmpImage, ScreenBuffer                  
sync                                              
end                                                

MyBmpImage:                                      
file 'Bg.bmp'                           
align 4                                         
ProgramSize:                                    
ScreenBuffer:                                               

[Corry]

Sure this will put a nice splash screen on bootup

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load   MyBmpImage, ScreenBuffer                  
sync                                              
end                                                

MyBmpImage:                                      
file 'Bg.bmp'                           
align 4                                         
ProgramSize:                                    
ScreenBuffer:                                               

Thanks for the reply.
Where abouts would I put that code, and where would I place the bmp file?

[DexOS]

Sorry it was a joke, it would put a splash screen, but little else.
As it's for bare metal coding, without a OS (eg: no linux).
And i sure thats not what you want.

[Corry]

Sorry it was a joke, it would put a splash screen, but little else.
As it's for bare metal coding, without a OS (eg: no linux).
And i sure thats not what you want.

[ukscone]

fbsplash is probably what you want

http://fbsplash.alanhaggai.org/

[mikerr]

fbi - linux framebuffer imageviewer

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 sudo apt-get install fbi 

then run it as

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fbi -a /usr/share/images/desktop-base/spacefun-grub-widescreen.png 

[Corry]

fbi - linux framebuffer imageviewer

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 sudo apt-get install fbi 

then run it as

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fbi -a /usr/share/images/desktop-base/spacefun-grub-widescreen.png 

Will this display the image on boot?
Do I have to put the line 'fbi - linux framebuffer imageviewer' in my config file or anything?

[mikerr]

No, the "fbi - a /usr/share/images..." line is what displays an image.

Try it at the command line.


Ultimately you'd put that in the startup (backgrounded), but to be honest I've just noticed this is in the beginners section,
so not so sure you should be editing the startup scripts as you could easily end up with an unbootable SD card, needing a reimage.

[teknohelio]

Look at this http://www.edv-huber.com/index.php/prob ... i-raspbian.

Written from my PI

[Shaner3721]

Hey All,

New here to the raspberry pi and hoping to learn a lot! Anyway, I have been trying to get a splash screen setup for a while now, followed the instructions at the above post and all commands seemed to run great... but I don't see the image when I reboot. Any ideas?

[ghans]

Did you try the linked tutorial ?

ghans

[Shaner3721]

Did you try the linked tutorial ?

ghans

Yes, I have already went through that process and it seems to work, but then I don't get a splash screen...

[ghans]

Error messages ?
Any peculiar behaviour ?

ghans

[haxxa]

On boot it shows that the script has launched however has [FAIL] next to it.

[Patfeesh]

I followed the same guide and got a fail too. Right at the start it returns:
asplashscreen: no such file or directory

I've executed "fbi /etc/splash.png" in the terminal when the pi is fully loaded and it displays the image fine. I've also confirmed that both the fbi file and the splash image are in the correct locations in the file system over FTP.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Patfeesh]

Solved (and caused) my own problem.

I had authored my script file in notepad++ in windows, which makes it unreadable as windows and UNIX deal with /n etc differently.

Write your script on a UNIX box or SSH into the pi and use nano. That fixed it for me

[-rst-]

I had authored my script file in notepad++ in windows, which makes it unreadable as windows and UNIX deal with /n etc differently.

Write your script on a UNIX box or SSH into the pi and use nano. That fixed it for me

I wonder if RPi Linux distros come with the 'dos2unix' utility included?

[norex]

I got this to work, dispute experiencing the copy paste issue. Only problem is... now when ever my pi boots, it will display the image for a couple of seconds and then goes into a blank screen. I have my resolution set to 1920x1200 w/32bit. Anyone else experience this?

Full disclosure, the OS is still running in the background, I know because I have logged in and run startx while in the blank screen state. The screen becomes visible on once X is loaded.

[Patfeesh]

yes the same thing happens with me. I've left it there in the hope that any issues on boot dont result in a screen full of error text and instead sticks with the splash screen

[MattHawkinsUK]

In Notepad++ on Windows it tells you what format the file is in. If it says "Dos\Windows" in the lower-right status bar then go to :

Edit > EOL Conversion > UNIX Format

The status in the lower-right will change to "UNIX". You can then FTP to your Pi and not have any problems. When you re-open the text file it will already be in UNIX format and you can make changes, re-upload etc.

[norex]

In Notepad++ on Windows it tells you what format the file is in. If it says "Dos\Windows" in the lower-right status bar then go to :

Edit > EOL Conversion > UNIX Format

The status in the lower-right will change to "UNIX". You can then FTP to your Pi and not have any problems. When you re-open the text file it will already be in UNIX format and you can make changes, re-upload etc.

Yea, I figured that out, but this going to a blank screen thing is killing me. So the way this works is that it loads a slide show at boot. When I run it verbose it is showing that 2 images are listed to show. Problem is, when it goes to the next image (a full black screen), it never exits and continues the boot sequence in the background. What's even stranger is that I can still log in, so fbi couldn't still be running could it?

[-rst-]

You could use the 'ps' (process list) utility to see if fbi is still running - maybe it does not exit by itself from the slideshow mode. Or maybe fbi leaves the display in a graphical mode or messes up the framebuffer palette...

[skidoobond]

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