Hi I'm trying to get the bootsplash graphical boot from www.bootsplash.org running on my thin clients.
I managed to get the kernel patched and the initrd patched. So now I can boot my client with a nice picture in the background. Verbose mode works, the progress bar also works more or less. But the truetype dynamic text display (see the bootsplash-gentoo screenshot) is a little more complicated, as it needs some freetype libraries to work, which I didn't manage to solve yet. The bootsplash-gentoo screenshot, where truetype text actually works is made with a statically compiled 'fbtruetype' program, from gentoo. Getting truetype text will also enlarge the initrd quite a bit, which I guess is not what we want. Perhaps the best, and easiest, thing is to drop truetype text display, and just write some static text on the background like in the bootsplash-linux screenshot. I've used images, configs and splash utilities from gentoo to test with, but I hope to get it working in the lbe too. This is a learning process, so any ideas and comments are most welcome. Regards Rasmus Ory Nielsen
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